The mother of murdered student Stephen Lawrence has been carjacked in Thornton Heath.

Doreen Lawrence, 58, was driving along Sandfield Road when she was rear-ended by three men in a Mercedes on Tuesday night.

As she got out of the car to exchange details with the driver and inspect the damage, two men leapt out of the car, one barged her out of the way and they got in her car.

The other man then let her go and jumped in the £30,000 BMW and drove off while his accomplice followed in the Mercedes.

Mrs Lawrence was then left stranded at the side of the road in the dark waiting for cops to arrive.

Her handbag containing her purse and credit cards was also taken.

Doreen’s 18-year-old son was stabbed to death as he stood waiting for a bus in Eltham in 1993.

Controversy surrounded the trial from the start after his five alleged killers walked free from court.

After the trial had finished a inquiry into the police investigation highlighted serious incidents on institutional racism from the Met officers on the case.

Mrs Lawrence has since become a human rights campaigner, dedicated to fighting racial crime and police misconduct.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “Police were alerted at 7.30pm on October 12 to reports of a collision between two cars in Sandfield Road, Thornton Heath.

“A woman driver was involved in a collision with another car when two males entered and drove the car away.”