Chair of Stephen Lawrence trust sues council bosses for alleged racism Mr Tandooran-Sentain, an Afro-Carribean man from Barking, Essex, is chair of the trust set up following the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993. Last year he hosted Labour leader Ed Miliband at a memorial service. He holds a Masters degree in urban regeneration. Between 2004 and 2008 he was chairman of a ministerial taskforce set up to enforce targets award Olympics jobs to people from ethnic minorities. He said he was undermined by superiors who claimed the borough was not prepared for the games. It was humiliating. I was made to look ineffective," he said in legal papers. He added other black staff suffered "the same marginalisation, belittlement and hostile working environment." Mr Tandooran-Sentain's solicitor Lawrence Davies, of law firm Equal Justice, said: "If Mr Sentain's claim is proven, there is something rotten in the state of Waltham Forest and that problem is nationwide." We will have a London Olympics hosted by white-led boroughs, unrepresentative of their significant black and minority ethnic populations; the most diverse city in the world trapped beneath a glass ceiling. Doreen Lawrence, mother of Stephen, will give evidence about Mr Tandooran-Sentain's work. She said it was a "travesty" that the black chief officers were all made redundant. Waltham Forest council strongly denies the allegations and said it had to fire 400 staff in £40m budget cuts. At a time when we are doing all we can to protect frontline services, we felt we could no longer justify the post of head of Olympics, which commanded a salary of approximately £90,000 per annum. This was the sole reason for Symon's redundancy and we utterly refute any suggestion to the contrary.