Stephen Lawrence Eltham murder: Look back 32 years on

Lawrence was stabbed until death on April 22, 1993, in an unprovured and racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Eltham, after a gang of young people shouted racial insults and soft weapons.

But he played almost 20 years for Mr. Lawrence’s family to see justice after the brutal attack, after the police admitted that “many mistakes” were made in the initial investigation.

Here is a look at the tragic case, police failures and the result of the investigation.

Who has an imprisoned bone?

Only two or the murderers of Mr. Lawrence have faced justice, after David Norris and Gary Dobson were imprisoned for life in 2012.

Gary Dobson is one of the two jailed men Norris, 48, was imprisoned for a minimum of 14 years and three months for murder in January 2012 at the end of a former Bailey trial that depended on small traces of forensic evidence.

He is ready to face his first probation hearing on a date that has not yet been solved, and on Thursday the probation board granted a request for the audience to be a hero in public.

David Norris is one of the two jailed menHowever, three other men were identified by the Police in relation to the attack, including the brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt and Luke Knight.

But despite being appointed as suspects, the three were never convicted of the murder.

However, the Court brothers have fulfilled time in jail for drug trafficking.

Sixth suspicious

In June 2023, the Metropolitan Police declared that Matthew White, who died in 2021 at the age of 50, was an important suspect at the time after the murder.

He had been arrested twice for the murder, but both occasions there were not enough evidence for prosecution.

White’s identification occurred after a BBC investigation that said he had a central role in the case.

Great failures

The original research on the death of Mr. Lawrence was hindered by institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police, and states that corrupt officers had tried to protect Norris, whose father Clifford Norris was a notorious drug trafficker.

Police also reported that he investigated blank, with problems such as officers entering the incorrect information about him in a database and the police did not follow an advantage after suspicions of his role in the murder.

White’s family and another witness also informed the Police that he admitted to having participated in the murder.

April 22 marks the anniversary of the death of Stephen Lawrence Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley apologized to Mother’s Baroness from Mr. Lawrence, Doreen Lawrence, for not fulfilling a promise to answer the questions of a BBC investigation into the murder.

The BBC said Lady Lawrence was promised an explanation after the station called Matthew White as sixth suspect.

Sir Mark said: “We recognize that this is a particularly dissemination moment for the Lawrence and Duwayne Brooks family. I regret that our lack of response to this has been added to this.” In addition to failures over the decades, this is totally YPT. ”

A timeline of the suspects

Dobson was first arrested on May 7, 1993 at the age of 17 and was not accused at that time.

He was later arrested and accused of the murder on September 8, 2010, after Mr. Lawrence’s blood on Dobson’s clothes when new technology was used to reexamine all tests.

Dobson was already in prison at that time for drug trafficking. He was later sentenced by murder and sentence to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 15 years and two months, according to reports, fulfilling time in Garree prison in Leinteseshire.

Norris was 16 at the time of murder and gave himself to the police in May 1994, but was not accused.

In 2002, Norris and Neil Acourt were imprisoned for 18 months by a racist attack against a black police officer of black dresses, a short distance in Eltham from where Mr. Lawrence was killed.

A cold case review found Mr. Lawrence with Norris’s clothes and he received life imprisonment with a minimum of 14 years and three months, currently service time at HMP Dartmoor.

The CPS said there was not enough evidence against Neil Acourt on July 29, 1993, after he was chosen from an alignment and accused on May 13 earlier that year.

NEIL ACOUST He was recharged later, but was acquired of murder. However, he was later imprisoned for 18 months for the same racist officer attack in 2002.

ACOURT was imprisoned in 2018 for its role in a case related to drugs between London and Northeast, but was released in March 2019.

His brother Jamie was arrested on May 7, 1993, but was not accused at that time.

In 2018, Jamie was imprisoned with his brother for the Cannabis smuggling operation.

JAMIE ACOUB (Image: With the Police) He spent more than two years in the race in Spain under alias Simon Alfonzo, and was released from prison in November 2022 after completing half of his drug judgment.

Knight was first arrested on June 3, 1993, but the charges were withdrawn since the CPS said there was not enough evidence.

It was a referral again, but in April 1996 it was acquired by murder by a jury.

Years later, in 2009, he said in an interview that he was “an innocent man.”

Althegh White was on the Radar of the MET in 1993, he was arrested and interviewed in March 2000 and December 2013.

While the files were presented in 2005 and 2014, the CPS said there was no realistic perspective to condemn White for any crime.

In February 2020, White was seen and spoken again, but there was no insufficient testimony or forensic evidence to progress more before dying in August 2021.