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Steve Hartshorn pitted himself against Scotland Yard chief Sir Mark Rowley

‘Acceptance is the first step to moving on,’ Steve Hartshorn says

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…

Greater Manchester Police chief constable says term is unhelpful and misunderstood

A damning report published in March found the UK’s largest police force rife with ill-treatment of women, ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ officers. Louise Casey found London’s Metropolitan Police to be “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic”, and recommended radical reform – or breaking up the Met.

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…

A new play inspired by the murder of Stephen Lawrence will have its world premiere only a few miles from where he was killed.

Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Stephen Watson said the label is unhelpful and misunderstood by members of the public.

Three decades on from killing nobody holds ‘brutal’ Met Police to account, Doreen Lawrence says