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LAWRENCE, IAIN: The Real Manhunter TV - A Killer’s Mistake TV - Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
Iain Lawrence wanted to kill her, and not just kill her but carry out the perfect murder. The Real Manhunter s2e1: Sally Lawrence, rozzer, Sky Crime 2022
He seemed to be an impossible person to deal with. ibid.
The police began investigating the accident as if it was a murder. ibid.
The trial lasted for 12 days, and at the end of that he was found guilty of murdering his wife Sally. ibid.
Sally Lawrence impressed everyone who came across her including the man who brought the business where she worked … The couple looked set for life, so why did one day Sally look so frightened of him? A Killer’s Mistake s2e1: Iain Lawrence
The risk seemed to have paid off for Iain Lawrence. He had survived the crash. The decree nisi would now not go ahead on the following Monday. He stood the own the family home outright. And to benefit from a £250,000 insurance payout. Had a killer got away with murder? ibid.
A car crash would claim the life of Sally Lawrence and leave her husband apparently injured but being treated in hospital. Meet, Marry, Murder s1e8, Netflix 2022
‘His injuries weren’t as severe as first reported to me.’ ibid. rozzer
‘She was telling me she was really frightened of him.’ ibid. friend
LAWRENCE, STEPHEN murder [viz Miscarriages of Justice, Lawrence, Stephen murder]: Inside the Old Bailey TV - World in Action TV - Paul Foot - Brian Cathcart - Daily Mail - Macpherson Report - Murders that Shocked Britain TV - ITV News TV - Stephen Lawrence: Time for Justice TV - Independent - Tonight: Stephen Lawrence: 20 Years On TV - Crimes that Shook Britain TV - Dispatches: The Police’s Dirty Secret TV - Doreen Lawrence - The Murder of Stephen Lawrence TV - The Boys Who Killed Stephen Lawrence TV - Catching Britain’s Killers: The Crimes that Changed Us TV - Daily Mail - Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation TV - Stephen TV - Cold Case Forensics TV -
There was one case that cast a shadow over British justice for nearly 20 years … There was public outrage. Inside the Old Bailey s1e6, Channel 5 2018
In April this year 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence was waiting for a bus in Eltham. It was 400 yards from where Rohit Duggal had been stabbed the previous summer … Stephen was stabbed a second time when he run away. World in Action: Violence with Violence, ITV 1993
When I left the Mirror all the big campaigns I had been involved in had apparently failed. I used to tell people, ‘Don’t come to me – I always lose.’ Then, one by one, the major cases were reopened and reversed: these included the release of Eddie Browning, who was falsely accused of the murder of Marie Wilkes, in 1994; the quashing of Colin Wallace’s conviction in 1996 and the release of the Bridgewater Four in 1997. So when I was back at Private Eye there was a series of victories in old campaigns, and new campaigns starting. As early as 1994 we raised doubts about the Stephen Lawrence case. In three articles called Sergeants’ Mess we pointed out that Stephen’s murderers were not prosecuted because Duwayne Brooks’s identification of two suspects was rubbished by a police officer who had absolutely no justification in rubbishing him. We also covered the Aitken story and the arms to Iraq affair. Paul Foot, Tribune of the People
Five months after the murder, one of Scotland Yard’s senior detectives, Deputy Assistant Commissioner David Osland, now a Tory councillor in Croydon, circulated a memorandum announcing that he was ‘losing patience’ with Neville and Doreen Lawrence, Stephen’s parents, and suggesting that the police officers engaged in the murder inquiry should sue the couple for libel. The irony in the notion that police officers who had not brought Stephen’s murderers to justice should secure damages from his parents was plainly lost on Mr Osland. He felt he and his force had been entirely justified by a ‘review’ conducted by a senior detective in London, Detective Chief Superintendent Roderick John Barker. Mr Barker’s ‘review’ which flowed from a secret inquiry and was of course not published, had discovered that the police investigation following the Lawrence murder was almost entirely flawless.
This remained the official police view as the long saga of the hunt for Stephen’s murderers unfolded. Weeks after the murder, five men were arrested. Two were identified by a witness to the murder, Stephen’s friend Duwayne Brookes. But Duwayne’s evidence was tainted – by a police officer who was appointed to drive him home and whose account of the conversation he had with Duwayne (which Duwayne hotly contested) persuaded the Crown Prosecution Service to drop the charges.
Angry and disillusioned, the Lawrence family took out a private prosecution against three of the men. The prosecution failed – largely because of the ‘tainting’ of Duwayne Brookes’s evidence by his police escort. An inquest jury proclaimed unequivocally that Stephen had been murdered in an unprovoked racist attack. The Daily Mail (in a sudden fit of conscience brought on by the fact that Neville Lawrence had once painted the house of the Mail editor) named the five original suspects and denounced them as the murderers. In spite of all this, the position five years on is that the murderers of Stephen Lawrence are still at large. Paul Foot, A Groundswell of Anger and Dismay
Shocking almost beyond belief. Certainly almost beyond bearing. Brian Cathcart, author: The Case of Stephen Lawrence
MURDERERS The Mail accuses these men of killing. If we are wrong, let them sue us. The Daily Mail headline 14th February 1997
The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people. The Macpherson Report: The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
The cruel and brutal murder of a young man made a police force examine its own attitudes to race. Murders that Shocked Britain
At first the racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence at a bus stop in Elton south-east London didn’t gain much media attention. However, the failure of police to bring the perpetrators to justice and accusations that race had played a part in the handling of the case would go on to trigger one of the most important legal cases in British history. ibid.
When the suspects were finally charged the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case. ibid.
The family pursued their own private prosecution. ibid.
The Daily Mail published the names and photographs of the five men today. ITV News at Ten