Doreen Lawrence says Metropolitan police are ‘rotten to the core’

Doreen Lawrence: ‘The force has had almost 30 years to put its house in order. It has not done so, either because it does not want to or it does not know how to.’ Photograph: Michael Melia/Alamy

The mother of the murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence has said the Metropolitan police are “rotten to the core” after the publication of a damning report into the force’s culture.

Louise Casey’s report, commissioned in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard, condemns Scotland Yard for its institutional racism, sexism and homophobia.