This weekend marks 30 years since 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence was murdered in an unprovoked racist attack while waiting for a bus in Eltham, south-east London. In the wake of his killing, and the failure of the initial police investigation, came the landmark 1999 Macpherson Report, which concluded that the Metropolitan Police was institutionally racist.
Today Stephen’s mother, Doreen, made a life peer for her tireless campaigning, says the Met has failed to change. Baroness Lawrence’s comments come only weeks after the Casey Review, commissioned following the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by serving police officer Wayne Couzens, which found the Met to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.
