Britain's top law officer is reviewing whether the jail terms handed out to Stephen Lawrence's killers are "unduly lenient".
A formal request to the Attorney General was made after the trial judge suggested he would have doubled the minimum sentence of Gary Dobson and David Norris if the law had allowed.
A member of the public applied for the review yesterday within hours of the killers being jailed at the Old Bailey.
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