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Commissioner says failure to explain why police did not pursue case against Matthew White ‘totally unacceptable’
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Commissioner says failure to explain why police did not pursue case against Matthew White ‘totally unacceptable’
Stephen Lawrence was brutally murdered in a racist attack whilst waiting for his bus home. Amid the anniversary of his death, The Mirror looks at what happened to his callous killers
Matthew White’s stepfather Jack Severs told a detective in 1993 that White admitted his part in Stephen Lawrence's murder but information was incorrectly recorded and he was not approached for 20 years
A separate police force will report on sixth murder suspect, Matthew White, who died last year without ever being prosecuted
Stephen Lawrence, 18, an aspiring architect, was murdered on his way home in an unprovoked attack by a gang of racists in Eltham, south-east London, in April 1993.