The sixth Stephen Lawrence suspect, Matthew White, should’ve been in the dock for a jury to decide his guilt - or otherwise - in a racist murder that rocked our nation.
Details of how the Metropolitan Police botched the investigation into him is cruel for Stephen’s parents, Doreen and Neville, who with their killed son were failed by officers who disgraced the force and denied a family the justice they deserved.
Once again we’re reduced to hoping and urging that lessons are learned when it is too late for Stephen but not too late to change for the better a Met rebranded institutionally racist by Louise Casey, an independent peer who found much that remains rotten in the country’s premier police service.
