ONE of the two men jailed for the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence has dropped his appeal against conviction, UK authorities have confirmed.
Gary Dobson was given a life sentence at the Old Bailey in January last year.
The second man, David Norris, is continuing his battle against conviction.
There will be a hearing in his case at the Court of Appeal in London. A date has not yet been set.
A Judicial Office spokeswoman on Friday confirmed Dobson had abandoned his renewed application to appeal his conviction.
Last summer, applications for permission to appeal by both men were rejected by a single judge who considered the papers from the case.
But Dobson and Norris, who are both in their 30s, still had the right to renew their applications before a panel of judges sitting at the Court of Appeal.
The trial judge, Justice Treacy, described the murder as a "terrible and evil crime".He urged police not to "close the file" on catching the rest of the killers after the Old Bailey heard that a gang of five or six white youths set upon A-level student Stephen in Eltham, south-east London, in 1993.
He said the murder was committed "for no other reason than racial hatred".
"A totally innocent 18-year-old youth on the threshold of a promising life was brutally cut down in the street in front of eyewitnesses by a racist, thuggish gang," he told the pair.
The breakthrough in the investigation came when a cold case team of forensic scientists was called in.
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