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Call for fresh inquiry into 'racist' killing

CAMPAIGNERS have urged the Crown Office to reopen the "racist" murder of a Somali student in Scotland 23 years ago under recently introduced double jeopardy legislation

Axmed Abuukar Sheekh, 28, was stabbed to death outside a pub after he and his cousin Abdirizak Yusuf had been racially abused by a group of football casuals in the Cowgate, Edinburgh, in January 1989.