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Mon 12 Dec 2002DPP inquiry into e-mail circulating racist poemThe Director of Public Prosecutions has set up an investigation into the circulation by e-mail of a racist poem that apparently originated in his office.Mr James Hamilton first learned of the poem when contacted about it by the Sunday Times on Friday afternoon. Ironically, that morning he had been talking to journalists about the DPP's annual report.