Line Of Duty writers have been praised for paying tribute to Stephen Lawrence and Christopher Alder by naming a victim in the storyline after them.
The two young men, both victims of racially motivated attacks whose cases also shed light on institutional racism, had their names incorporated to create a character named Christopher Lawrence.
In last night's episode of Line of Duty, it was revealed that Christopher Lawrence was attacked by a group of white youths at a railway station before the police were called.
However, officers assumed the attack was linked to gang activity and took the dazed young architect into police custody. Officer Chloe Bishop reveals that he died in his jail cell from an untreated skull fracture while he was being
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