The Latest Breaking News from William MacPherson

After all the fine words, issues of racial equality were ducked and the rightwing backlash found friends in government, says author and academic Nicola Rollock

As we remember the Macpherson report, I rue the lack of progress, says Doreen Lawrence, Stephen’s mother, a life peer and a social justice campaigner

The retired Met Police detectives probed over their alleged mishandling of the Stephen Lawrence murder at the beginning of the investigation will not face any charges, the CPS is to announce

More than 30 years after the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, London’s Metropolitan Police have named a new suspect. A BBC investigation identified Matthew White as a sixth suspect, raising questions about why it took police two decades to properly investigate White, who died in 2021.

Watchdog identified further details that ‘could and should’ have been handed over to Macpherson inquiry

White, who died in 2021 aged 50, was convicted of an assault on a black shop worker near where Lawrence was murdered

Key suspect cheats justice thanks to more errors by Met

Sir Mark Rowley and Sadiq Khan among those to speak on issue

Baroness Louise Casey has found that London’s Metropolitan police force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. We heard similar 24 years ago when, after the incompetent investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William MacPherson reported that the Met was institutionally racist.