Macpherson Report

Sir William Macpherson, who chaired the landmark 1998-99 public inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, lent his support to this project to create a free online resource for the study of the inq…

The chair of the inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William Macpherson, had three advisers who sat with him at the hearings and who all ultimately endorsed his report in full. One was D…

‘The evidence we will call will be directed to the important issues – what went wrong and why?’ The leading counsel to the Macpherson Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence was Edmund Lawson QC,…

One of three official advisers to the Macpherson Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Dr John Sentamu was then the Anglican Bishop for Stepney. As a young man he had practised law in Uganda b…

Stephen Lawrence was not the first young black man murdered in the borough of Greenwich, southeast London in the early 1990s – it was called ‘the racist murder capital of Britain’. One earlier victim…

Doreen Lawrence, now Baroness Lawrence,  gave evidence and made written submissions to the 1998-9 Macpherson Inquiry into the racist murder of her son Stephen, and chapter four of the Inquiry's repor…

Sir William Macpherson of Cluny, aristocrat, former soldier and retired High Court judge aged 72, was a controversial choice to chair the public inquiry into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence tha…

Duwayne Brooks was with his friend Stephen Lawrence on the night in 1993 when he was stabbed and killed. He too was attacked but managed to escape and call the police. He was traumatised by the exper…

What role did race play in the case of Stephen Lawrence? Read what the Macpherson Inquiry had to say in the Inquiry Report, from page 321. Available in full at  www.discovermacpherson.com.   www.disc…

This was how it was defined in the report of the Macpherson Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. (Page 321, accessible now at  www.discovermacpherson.com.   www.discovermacpherson.com – your …

The 1998-9 Macpherson Inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence murder heard evidence about racism and the police use of ‘Stop and Search’ powers, and this was its conclusion. It appears on page 312 of the I…

The verdict of the 1998-9 Macpherson Inquiry on the Metropolitan Police's 1994 internal review its own investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The ‘Barker Review’ had insisted that the polic…