Some anniversaries, even those commemorating tragic events, provide a welcome opportunity to mark the progress made. Others serve as a reminder of how far is left to go. This Saturday, which falls 30 years after Stephen Lawrence was murdered in an unprovoked racist attack while waiting for a bus in Eltham, lies firmly in the latter category.
This morning, Stephen’s mother, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, spoke to the BBC about her decades-long fight for justice and despaired at the lack of progress within the Metropolitan Police. “I don’t know how many more inquiries and how many reviews you need to have to say the same thing – and still no changes, and still denials,” she told Reeta Chakrabarti.
