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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent

Neville Lawrence says Met police surrendered to son’s killers

Stephen Lawrence
Stephen Lawrence was racially abused, then surrounded and stabbed twice in south-east London on 22 April 1993. Photograph: PA

Scotland Yard surrendered to the racist killers of Stephen Lawrence who are still walking free, his father has said, as he demanded police reopen their investigation and hunt them down.

Neville Lawrence said the police decision three years ago to close the investigation into the remaining gang members who escaped justice for the 1993 attack was made because black life was viewed as cheap.

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