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Read what the police said about the role of racism in the first investigation into the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence. The full, 285-page, final submission of the Metropolitan Police Service to the …

This stone was placed at the spot on Well Hall Road in southeast London where Stephen Lawrence died in 1993. He had been stabbed twice by his racist attackers but with his friend Duwayne Brooks he tr…

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 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…

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 words of a police detective being questioned about the murder of Stephen Lawrence at the Macpherson Inquiry into the case. From page 3175 of the Inquiry transcript, accessible now at  www.discove…

Nearly 14 years after testifying – as a suspect – at the Macpherson Inquiry into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, David Norris was convicted of the crime at the Old Bailey. You can read the evi…

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 …

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…

When Doreen Lawrence challenged the police over her son's murder. Her landmark speech at the inquest into the death of Stephen Lawrence, 10 February 1997.  (Page 276 of The Case of Stephen Lawrence) …

When the Metropolitan Police apologised to the family of Stephen Lawrence. (Page 8568 on day 45 of the inquiry transcript) www.discovermacpherson.com – your gateway to the complex scandal that change…

www.discovermacpherson.com – a resource for HMC schools marking Black History Month. Founded in 1869, the headteachers organisation HMC has more than 300 members in the British Isles educating more t…

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…

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…

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…

The reinvestigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence that led to the convicted of Gary Dobson and David Norris was the subject of an ITV drama, with Steve Coogan playing the lead detective Clive Dri…

Published just weeks after the conclusion of the Macpherson Inquiry in 1999, this award-winning book presents a forensic account of the case as it was seen at the time, exposing failures in the polic…

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…

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…

Benjamin Zephaniah, celebrated poet and activist, wrote a poem entitled ‘What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us'. The original manuscript is at the British Library and can be read here:  Windrush Storie…

‘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,…

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…