Headteacher's killer 'poses a risk'

Learco Chindamo has been rated as the highest level of risk because of his notoriety, and would also need to be excluded from certain parts of the country, the documents revealed.

The details emerged in the written judgment from an immigration tribunal which on Monday ruled Chindamo, who was 15 at the time of the crime, should be allowed to stay in Britain at the end of his prison sentence.

Home Office officials submitted a letter to the tribunal which showed Chindamo had "overacted" to situations on several occasions, and predicted it would be extremely difficult to find him somewhere to live on release.

"It was considered that he posed a continuing risk to the public and that his offences were so serious that he represents a genuine and present and sufficiently serious threat to the public in principle as to justify his deportation," the judgment said of the Home Office's case.

It added that while it was unlikely that Chindamo would reoffend, he had been ranked as a high risk under the multi-agency public protection arrangements.

However, this high-risk ranking was largely due to the media interest he would receive on release and the risk of a "backlash", it added.

Chindamo's defence team said there was no evidence their client, now aged 26, was a serious and present threat, noting that reports on him had been "very positive" and the Parole Board had been "very impressed".

Mr Lawrence was stabbed to death in an attack outside St George's Roman Catholic School in Maida Vale, west London, in December 1995, while trying to protect a 13-year-old pupil.

A gang of 12 youths led by Chindamo went to attack the pupil, who had quarrelled with a boy of Filipino origin. Chindamo, whose mother is Filipino and father Italian, punched and stabbed father of four Mr Lawrence, who died the same evening.