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Father speaks out on 30th anniversary of murder as new research shows continuing stop and search inequality

Sir Mark Rowley apologised for failings in the aftermath of the killing which led to the force’s response to it being branded institutionally racist.

This weekend marks 30 years since 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence was murdered in an unprovoked racist attack while waiting for a bus in Eltham, south-east London. In the wake of his killing, and the failure of the initial police investigation, came the landmark 1999 Macpherson Report, which concluded that the Metropolitan…

Mother of teenager killed in racist attack in 1993 says police in London ‘able to be as brutal as they want’

Neville Lawrence, 81, told the Daily Mirror he will give victim impact statements at the parole hearings of Gary Dobson, 47, and David Norris, 46.

Louise Casey’s review of the standards of behaviour and internal culture at the Metropolitan police makes for uncomfortable reading. It was commissioned following the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Couzens, who was a serving Met officer at the time.

The Metropolitan police will not be looking at racism in its plans to root out rogue officers despite the Casey report labelling the force institutionally racist

The force’s leadership must act on the findings of Louise Casey’s review and rebuild its trust with the public

Sir Mark Rowley said the word had an “ambiguous” set of meetings, as well as being politically contentious

Trouble is, we’ve been here before - with the Scarman Report in 1981 and the 1999 MacPherson inquiry which famously found the Met to be institutionally racist

A former Met Police Superintendent suing the force over ‘racist and sexist abuse’ is calling for the Commissioner to resign following his refusal to use the term institutional racism despite damning Casey report