Met Confirm Lawrence Friend Bugging Complaint The Metropolitan Police have confirmed receipt of a complaint from Mr Brooks, following his claim that two meetings with his solicitor and police between 1999 and 2000 were covertly recorded by officers. A Met spokesman said the complaint had been passed to the Directorate of Professional Standards, where it would be investigated. Mr Brooks was with Mr Lawrence on the night he was killed in a racist attack in 1993 in Eltham, south London. Scotland Yard said the claims would be treated as a matter or urgency. Mr Brooks's solicitor Jane Deighton said that he now needed to know what the police had been doing. She said there was no reason for police to record the meetings which they had themselves requested. There is absolutely no rational reason. That is very worrying for Duwayne Brooks and for ourselves because it is quite sinister," she said. Why covertly record a meeting that you have asked for? Why, unless it is part of something much bigger. Why, unless in fact covert recordings were happening of Duwayne Brooks and ourselves in different situations? That is what we want to know. The Met has come under intense pressure in recent days over claims from former officer Peter Francis that he was ordered to dig up "dirt" on Lawrence's friends and family that could be used to smear them. Stephen Lawrence was murdered in an unprovoked racist attack in London Mr Francis said he was told to target Duwayne Brooks and other campaigners angry at the failure to bring his killers to justice. Stephen Lawrence's father, Neville Lawrence, has called for a judge-led inquiry into suggestions of a smear campaign, dismissing as "completely unsatisfactory" Home Secretary Theresa May's announcement that they would be examined by two continuing inquiries. In a statement issued from his home in Jamaica, Mr Lawrence said: "I understand that the Home Secretary has announced that she will extend the inquiries of Mark Ellison QC and Operation Herne. I would like to make it clear that I find this completely unsatisfactory. Referring to the claims, Mr Lawrence's ex-wife Doreen said that "nothing can justify" the use of such tactics.