Kris Donald
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Kris Donald was a Scottish fifteen-year-old who was kidnapped and murdered in Glasgow in 2004. He was first tortured with stab-wounds, then doused in petrol and set on fire. His murderers, who were British Asians of Pakistani Muslim origin, are believed to have been racially motivated and to have chosen Donald at random while seeking revenge for a relationship between a white man and the sister of one of them. After the murder, some fled the United Kingdom and sought refuge in Pakistan. Some commentators have contrasted the relatively small attention given to Donald's murder by the British media with the extensive and long-lasting attention given to the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence by whites in 1993. There have also been accusations that the extreme right-wing British National Party have sought to exploit the case for political advantage. Other Far-Right groups like the National Front say that the media and the British Government did not see this to be as important as the Stephen Lawrence case because the victim was white and the murderers were Asian Muslims
External links
- Man killed schoolboy as act of racist revenge (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1354682,00.html) -- The Guardian, Friday November 19, 2004
- Snatched teenager found dead (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1171044,00.html) -- The Guardian, Wednesday, March 17, 2004.
