Doreen Lawrence’s fury as new suspect in Stephen Lawrence murder named for first time
The Independent says A furious Baroness Doreen Lawrence has called for officers to be sacked after a new suspect was named in the murder of her son Stephen 30 years after he was stabbed to death in the UK’s most notorious racist killing.
The Metropolitan Police has named Matthew White as a suspect in the case, two years after he died, aged 50, in 2021. He first came to the Met’s attention as a witness in 1993 during the trials of two men who were convicted of the teenager’s murder.
In a statement issued after Mr White named, Baroness Lawrence said there should be “serious sanctions” against the officers who failed to investigate him.
“Only when police officers lose their jobs can the public have confidence that failure and incompetence will not be tolerated and that change will happen,” she said.