British police have charged three men with the murder of a Nigerian schoolboy in London in 2000.
The three - aged 16, 17 and 19 and all from Peckham, southeast London - will appear at Camberwell Green Magistrates Court today. The 19-year-old was named yesterday as Hassan Jihad.
The murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor shocked Britain and prompted urgent calls for the government to review the country's criminal justice system.
Taylor bled to death on a dark, urine-soaked stairwell on a rundown housing estate in London after he was stabbed in the leg with a broken bottle in November 2000, just a few months after arriving here in search of a better life.
The latest charges come almost three years after four youths accused of his murder were cleared after police and prosecutors botched the trial.
Damilola's killing stung the country, coming at a time when street crime and violent offences were soaring, and generated huge media interest.
Closed circuit cameras had caught the youngster skipping along the pavement in a silver jacket just hours before he was killed on his return home from school.
London's police force, accused of being institutionally racist for failing to solve the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993, was put under great pressure to find Damilola's killers.
They charged four youths, including two 16-year old brothers, with the killing but the gang were cleared at a dramatic Old Bailey trial in April 2002 amid widespread condemnation of the nation's legal system.
A subsequent inquiry, ordered by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, found key evidence ordered by the judge to be withheld from the jury should have been allowed, in particular that of the key 14-year-old female witness known as "Bromley".
It prompted Blair, who had described Damilola as a "remarkable young boy", to vow to reform the justice system - a template for many countries around the world - to align it more in favour of the victim.