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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Martin Bentham

Too late for Stephen Lawrence but not for Met chief to drive reform

The naming of Matthew White as a sixth suspect in the murder of Stephen Lawrence raises disturbing new questions about the Met’s failings and its inability to secure proper justice over one of the capital’s most notorious killings.

The evidence revealed suggests White was both present at Stephen’s murder in April 1993 and resembled an unidentified fair-haired attacker described by eyewitnesses as taking part in the attack.

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