OPINION - The Standard View: 30 years on from the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a reality check for 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 Police was institutionally racist.