Race murder mum calls for police honesty
Doreen Lawrence has called on the Metropolitan Police to “be honest” about the likelihood that anyone else involved in her son’s murder will be brought to justice.
Scotland Yard says the probe into Stephen Lawrence’s raciallymotivated killing 25 years ago remains “in an active phase”, however his mother said she suspects detectives have run out of lines of inquiry.
Baroness Lawrence said she believes the Met is concerned about her public reaction should they decide to close the case.
She also suggested that she was ready to begin to move on from her tireless pursuit of justice for her son and dedicate her time to her family and grieving.
“I don’t think they (the police) have any more lines of inquiry. They say they’re carrying on the investigation, but carrying on doing what?” the Labour peer said.
“If they’ve come to the end, they should be honest – say they’ve come to an end and stop.”
To date, two people have been convicted over Mr Lawrence’s killing in Eltham, south-east London, on April 22 1993.
In 2012, Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty of murder under joint enterprise and jailed for life.
Detectives believe Mr Lawrence was stabbed to death by a group of up to six white men in the unprovoked racist attack as he waited at a bus stop with a friend.