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Is there still a chance to get justice for Stephen Lawrence?

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Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death by a gang of five or six young white men in 1993 .

Only two of his killers have been convicted of murder, meaning others remain free.

In 2020 , the Met announced it was closing the murder investigation and that it had exhausted all viable lines of inquiry.

Following this, I began investigating and, last year , the BBC publicly identified a major suspect for the first time.

But there may, in fact, be a genuine opportunity for further charges.

Matthew White was treated as a witness by the first investigation.

He was repeatedly referred to as such under an alias during Macpherson report.

But he was really a major suspect and the failure to identify him as one is arguably the worst of all those committed by first investigating team.

New opportunities for evidence are still being uncovered and new opportunities are being identified.

The only successful Met investigation was the one run by Clive Driscoll .

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75

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informal

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English

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