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The late Matthew White has been named in a documentary as a suspect in the racist murder of an Eltham teenager in 1993

The BBC revealed that leads connected to Matthew White were not properly followed up by police until 20 years after the teenager’s racist murder.

The BBC revealed that leads connected to Matthew White were not properly followed up by police until 20 years after the teenager’s racist murder

Barrister Michael Mansfield says it is still possible to put the remaining suspects on trial 30 years after the killing

We'll have more on white in a moment, but first let's look at the main events of the last three decades. it was in april 1993 that stephen lawrence was stabbed to death by a gang of young white men in eltham, south east london, while waiting for a bus. he was 18. after police investigations failed to produce results, the family brought a private prosecution in 1996, but no one was convicted. three years later, the macpherson report, which resulted from a public inquiry ordered by the government, found that the met police had bungled the investigation and that it was �*institutionally racistï...