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The Metropolitan Police secretly bugged meetings with Stephen Lawrence's friend Duwayne Brooks and his lawyer, the BBC has learned.
Mr Brooks was with the 18-year-old on the night he was killed in a racist attack in 1993 in Eltham, south London.
Mr Brooks and his lawyer were unaware that the meetings were being recorded.
Scotland Yard said its directorate of professional standards was looking into the claim and treating it with "huge seriousness".
It comes after the home secretary said claims that police tried to smear Mr Lawrence's family will be looked at by two existing inquiries.
A senior police source told the BBC authorisation was given to record two meetings between Mr Brooks, his legal representatives and police officers from the investigation team.
The revelations will add to pressure on the Met following claims that undercover police officers tried to smear Stephen Lawrence's family and anti-racist campaigners following his murder in 1993.
An undercover policeman has alleged that he was also instructed to find information that could discredit Mr Brooks.
The bugged meetings were held in an interview room at the offices of Deighton Guedalla, in Islington, north London, in 1999 or 2000.
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