09/10/2025
In April 1993, , an 18-year-old Black teenager from south-east London, was waiting for a bus with his friend when he was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of white youths shouting racial slurs. His murder shocked Britain and exposed the deep racism within the country’s institutions.
Despite clear evidence and multiple eyewitness accounts, police failed to make timely arrests or properly investigate. For years, the killers walked free while Stephen’s parents, Doreen and Neville Lawrence, fought tirelessly for justice. Their courage led to the Macpherson Inquiry in 1999, which concluded that the Metropolitan Police was “institutionally racist” — a landmark moment that changed British law and policing forever.
It wasn’t until 2012, nearly two decades later, that two members of the gang, and , were finally convicted of Stephen’s murder after new forensic evidence was found. Three others believed to be involved have never been convicted.
Now, more than 30 years later, David Norris has publicly begged Stephen’s family for forgiveness, admitting partial involvement but denying he used the knife. Stephen’s family say that forgiveness cannot come without full truth — and that Norris should remain in prison until he reveals everything about what really happened that night, because real justice can’t exist without the truth.
