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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…