Lessons of the Stephen Lawrence murder
That Gary Dobson and David Norris have been jailed for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence was for the people who loved him, some sort of justice. But as Doreen Lawrence has pointed out it cannot be the end of the matter. The details of the Stephen Lawrence case and the inquiries and investigations which followed have been thoroughly revisited recently but the lessons of this terrible story bear repeating. Two things stand out. The police have not — as some pundits would have it — made “good progress” since Stephen’s death. They are still incompetent, racist, corrupt, thuggish and a...