okay let open that camera I think all the filmers around us Steven and that I find it weird really comfortable as comfortable as it can be I don't enjoy it at [Music] all but I think it's important because of how Steven was killed and also the way in which we were treated as a family um want to start in 93 my has been murdered and none of these officers the justice system the politicians nobody cared these idiots who have murdered my son had more rights than we did running the second camera and I'm not doing any filming with you so it better be a good one also just to talk about Steven a bit more and so people can see that he had a life not just in death but before [Music] [Music] another sorry if you just just so we got these these cutaway shots Dorian and Neville they were just very good honest people I just get you to turn a page please Steven he was a very ordinary kid he had this disarmingly big grin our peers were black and white so race was very much something that we were aware of but it was more something that our parents had fought the good fight to make it less of an issue for us [Music] we were just at a bus stop in London we were attacked at a bus stop in one of the greatest cities in the world people seem to think I may have moved on and I've Got Over Steven steti I haven't I don't think I have come through the other end all I wanted to do is to get Justice for Steven growing up in the Caribbean a lot of people have a pet name that they called my family would call me joy and I did know know my name was Dorian until I went to school since the early 1950s colored immigrants from the Commonwealth have come in much greater numbers they've come in search of better jobs and a better life for their families I Sumer mother left when I was about two her husband to be sent for her 20 odd years ago it was quite rare to see a negr cuz you see when I came in 49 there weren't so many colored people your eyes were geared to looking for hor a colored face in the street the only ones we used to see then were seeks I think that's how you pronounce it they create an atmosphere of foreignness I never met my mom until I was nine I my grandmother died that's when I came here and I arrive and I just remember seeing the houses how close together they were that was strange and you see these strangers cuz I've never met any of them so was my mother and my step brother and when I got here I had a baby brother my other siblings were born after that by the time I got to secondary school there was quite a large mix of black girls most of my friends were black but I didn't look at it as I'm black and they are white in the early days people from the West Indies was invited to go to England to go and help to rebuild the country after the war but then found out there was lots of discrimination against people from the West IND this black people I found myself working as a tailor and while I was working tailoring trade I met dorine's mother who was also a dress maker and while I was doing that I eventually met dorine I kind of liked her we used to travel together on the train that developed from [Music] there and then at lunchtime I'd leave work cuz I used to work in morgate and go meet him over edgeway Road I think it was which was quite distance go for meet somebody for [Music] lunch I saw her at the first time I even think about getting married to somebody looking back on it I've Got Married 2 weeks after my 20th birthday looking back on it now how would you get married so young but at the time in the' 70s that's what happened vict Jo that's her PR name she looked beautiful in photograph I never looked like one of those guys from the for Toops and never was very tall and then when Steven came along life was fine Steven was born about two years later and that was a fantastic time I remember spending so much time teaching him to say Mom first we would do so much stuff together play together read everything thing and his first words was Mom but then he began to call me dad n mom Nursery he loved nursery and School St got out school really well it was just one of these kids who was just strive at everything but I was a very strict manom and need to say to me Mom you care too much and the days when I lived next door to dorine I just remember that it was really nice to meet a nice family that you know had got children the same ages as ours they all used to play together we used to do lots and lots of things together we all grow up together so we've never had a thing that oh you must be careful cuz you're black this could happen to you Steven didn't experience the sense of difference growing up that I experienced my parents were very political and you know being of mix Heritage I was made to be aware of race and politics and [Music] Injustice days when the thatford fire happened that was a Monumental impact a lot of young black teenagers burnt in a fire local black organizations alleg racially motivated Arsen and they accused the police of not pursuing their investigations with full Vigor the police deny this it felt like like it was the Tipping Point for people's frustration in the system and in our government it felt like it was the Tipping Point for people to kind of rise up against you know thatright Britain we still had those divisive lines I grew up in bford I was going to blacke Blue Co School Stephen who we called Steve we were in the same class on the first day he was a cool guy and everybody loved him [Music] he used to train Cambridge harriers Steve was an excellent athlete I just remember him always running I was very pressed I think he was very good Athletics was his [Music] thing I just remember that London felt quite inclusive actually felt quite positive felt quite Cosmopolitan Soul to- Soul were telling us to keep on moving and Public Enemy were telling us to fight the power but we're leading up to Stevens's uh death and soon after I think it changed radically but the British people first stop immigration start repatriation much in the same way that brexit has changed the nation it brought back these feelings of maybe I'm not not part of this community maybe I am part of the other whatever that means extreme right-wing groups like the British national party are trying to capitalize on the rise in unemployment in the areas just outside of London people resent the fact that immigrants have got jobs and that they haven't got jobs anytime you stepped out the in a city area of London then you were always as a black person under danger and threat in these all white enclaves that were working class white suburbs I was a member of the national black caucus at the time when we came to areas like Elam what we saw is a massive escalation of racist attacks of people moved into those areas I've been called a [ __ ] every now and again like walking past the bus stop and someone drove past and shouted at o [ __ ] you should be burnt I think it works both ways you know like black people don't know white people so white people are not black people Al in those days people living in fear black oasian people there were some very very serious attacks this guy called Rodriguez he was in Alam park with a white girl and uh that's why he got attacked and he needed 27 stitches Elum it felt like the last stronghold of a white community that was holding on to the past or perception of the past some kind of Glory Days that never existed where I live one on road it's not what it used to be I think people would probably like to tell you that they left their doors unlocked you used to hear that kind of conversation Imam used to in the 30s in the 40s but nowadays you can't there so many two leaves about which is thieves if you don't know what it is I didn't have fun feelings for the place I didn't feel comfortable there tme wasn't that far away and that felt like a real no-go place to me on the 21st of February 1991 Roland Adams 15-year-old with his brother n had gone to Hawk mu's Club on the way back confronted by the goldfish gang calling them [ __ ] and all that and stabbed Roland Adams in the neck and he died at the Boiler House roundabout I think dorine and I got a bit of a shock when the youngsters started to tell us you know s can't go in that area and we can't go in that area and we just lived in our own little world and didn't really know about these things when the economy suffers and goes down racism always goes on we decided that we would reach out internationally contacted Reverend Al shton you came out here because you told the world I was going to be banned don't start talking about civiliz what all the lies that all of written I remember the front page I think it was the Daily Mail which had race haate preacher from Hell Comes to UK I supp I come more aware of the racist murders when Roland Adams was killed even though you used to read s in the papers that was closely to home Steven said to me they were having a March when har shopton came over from America and he's telling me he's going I said I don't want you to go cuz I was more worried about him but he still went cuz he felt that he knew Roland and he wanted to be there to support but I was worried about him all the time while he was there Elum 25 years ago there were people carrying knives around at night around that area without any doubt at all noris dubson the a cords they were actually targeting people I was G definitely they wouldn't have no one taken the piss I was definitely W back down from a fire in the months before the murder of Steven there had been another murder just off the roundabout by the kab house rib who went to chislers and situp grammar school and he was stabbed by a man from the kab house there was a stabbing in a wimpy bar in Elam and the air cours were involved with that so the police knew about these people already I think the aots and Norris they got away with quite a few stabbings I think Stacy Benfield was stabbed was lucky very lucky I think Stacy and he killed him just missed his AR there was a little confrontation and one of them pulled a knife and stuck it straight in him as far as I know there was a simmering Cadron of unrest around race issues the Metropolitan Police I inherited in 1993 was underperforming and I knew that race relations in London were going to be a huge challenge in tolerant of racially motivated attempts and that's why when I became commissioner I chose as my first speech the importance of race and diversity and Justice as the tools of their political expression when Steven got older and he had a job I used to say to him do careful when you're coming home this late at [Music] night I was watching people going to work he saw me looking through the window and he stopped and said to me dad are you okay and I said yes said okay Dad and I watched him walk out of the house down to this St and turn through the alleyway and that was the last time I saw him alive I went to meet him after school we then went to his uncle's house Steve wanted to get home because he hadn't seen his mom all that week so we took a bus into El bus up a Coss Ro from McDonald's that is your time trust me 286 came past us so I just started running and then we got on the bus yeah but St man we could all be going out clubing and all that and then we took that bus to the bus stop just before the roundabout complain you always complaining about s man we get the bus from over there it's just common sense it would be quicker I was an opair near willage I was waiting at the bus stop so I had time to watch them or to look at them they were chatting and they were joyful and Lively and they were doing dense steps uh on the pavement and I felt wow they look very cool stepen went to look at the timetable 1 22 or 161 122 man how long if we had known that the bus was going to take so long the 122 to come we would have just jogged it so I'm quite agitated about being there at that time of night because people will drive past and throw things at you and Shout abuse I remember him and I having this discussion about can you see a bus and then we both were walking toly round about because we wanted to see if another bus was going to come if straight ahead of me is 12:00 where Steven's standing then at 10:00 I remember this group of white boys on the other side of the road shouting and then one of them said what what [ __ ] as he started to run across the road he was um he was pulling stuff out of his pocket out his trouses and he couldn't run properly and he just came the whole group started running and I shout it to Steve to to run and I just saw this guy strike a down blow which I was a weapon I was watching television and I heard a scream or a shout and it was an unusual scream or Shout come on man come on St man come come on I'm telling to coming back come on stepen stood up and starting to run and leaving his Rock sack back and so I felt wow he's okay it's fine he's running fast come back when I'm sharing you coming come on come on Steve come on just keep running he wasn't running properly he was running lopsided and he kept saying to me Dwayne Dwayne like what's happened to me what's happened to me and I just kept saying to him just let's just run let's just run keep R keep run R come on with me no Ste man come on B up come on little F come on man come on no please I ran across the road I saw these two people and I asked them for their help and they just walked past me help me help me I tried to stop cars in the road no cars were stopping I went to the phone box and I dial 999 ambulance please man ambulance I need ambulance man and I gave the address in the phone box but the address in the phone box was incorrect I don't know the [ __ ] phone I remember remember that A car pulled up some people came out and he said to me what's happened I told him that he' been hereit I'm at that time I didn't know that he wasn't here with iron bar that he'd been stabbed in those places I didn't know any of that I'm not defending the police at all but I think that also confused the police that turned up because they were expecting to see someone hit with an iron bar he's still breathing there it's all right it's okay the [ __ ] police beding the police were being unhelpful Steve was just lying there bleeding to death I always remember seeing that they just ran out and hit him with an iron bar yes I'm trying to tell you why would they do that the ambulance comes and when they pick him up they turn him over and pick him up he is completely soaked in his own blood yeah if you could just stay out of the way please thank you I was away my first I'm going away with my course when I came back NE was waiting for me where the culture droppers off down in wage so you know you ask the question how's the kids and how they're doing everybody seems to be fine Steven's not home well I did tell him that you were coming home tonight so but that wasn't unusual so I wasn't worried St I got dressed in my nightclothes they went to have something to eat did St say where he was going no and it's just why we were sit there watching the news you hear the door knock and because I was in my nightclothes never went to of the door I saw Joey who lives at the back and his dad Jo just said that there's an incident happened down well Hall Road called 999 they don't know anything so that's when we got in the car and went looking for him well all right that's as far as we went well Hall Road and I saw no flashing lights nothing to draw us to that area so we just thought well he's going to the hospital so let's go to the hospital which is what we did when we got there I'm never went to park the car and I walked in and I didn't see anybody even though Dwayne was there I didn't even notice him Neville he only when nille came in that Neville noticed him and noticed the police officer Mr Lawrence Steven's being looked after har here is going to look after you and we we let you know yeah follow me into the family room they hushed us into a room and Dwayne came in and he just wasn't talking he wasn't talking you s of sit there thinking okay what am I supposed to do now nurse of doctor came in to say that Steven had died what no no no no no that that I can't be right that's not true it still seems so unreal it's something hard when somebody tell you that cuz you're thinking is a you're watching a play or a drama it's not real it wasn't real because when I looked at him he had a cut on his face but he just looked as if he was sleeping they had a tape around his neck the Gown came up to right here you could still see the tape that they put on his neck um I stayed with him for a while and then we went back out and then other family start [Music] coming we eventually decided to go home CU we didn't know what what else to do so we went home Stuart came downstairs and um we told him but Georgina we didn't wake her so the morning she woke up I I didn't sleep you know I didn't sleep at all and she she must have heard but I don't know what she heard that Neville said on the phone and she just ran upstairs screaming screaming screaming so then then I had to go out to her and it's like how do you hold her I spent the whole night in police station I was consistently questioned about the the what what [ __ ] was that you sure that wasn't a nickname you you sure you didn't hear wrong you didn't Steve have other nicknames that other people would have called him by no are you sure you heard that yes my name is Ian kampton I was a detective superintendent and got called out to the scene of Steven's death it was a stabbing I was told at that time and uh the victim had had died on my way I called it the plumer police station where Dwayne was I learned from Dwayne that it was a stranger attack he seen Steven being struck and went down on the floor a stranger attack is always a little more difficult because you haven't got people knowing one another which in many cases leads to some sort of motive an 18-year-old boy has been stabbed to death Steven the Friday we were then introduced to two officers who were supposed to be l officer to come and help us and then end up with pen and paper taking down the names of my friends and relative who came to help us I'm sorry who are these people oh my name is marann Jean Baptist and I played Dorene Lawrence hello the film the murder of Steven Lawrence followed the family very closely there is a helplessness in there ask him for it ear did you get up and you keep going cuz we've done it for Generations black women you just have to keep going Steven Lawrence died stabbed at a bus stop in Elum his father has called for the return of the death penalty I think they should bring back hanging something like this it's a sensless murder I had to go on TV and do appeal for Witnesses and I was then told that Crompton was only going to do the case until Monday why would you want to take take over case for only 2 days this was not by choice at that stage it needed somebody that was going to be the SI to be there full time I had other commitments at court it was something that there was no way that you you could get [Music] round that's a big one that is a huge problem the column of smoke Rising of the city skyline left londoners in little doubt about the size of the blast the Saturday there was a major Ira bomb in London the bishop skate bomb and my focus was preventing London being bombed by terrorists if I if I'm Hest that was my primary focus dayto day so many rumors were flashing about you know somebody called somebody a black name and a fight happened who knows I never heard nothing I just heard a shout or a scream obviously there was names flying about and everyone seemed to think it was the same people but I don't need to be blurting out people's names in here you know what I mean you never know what's going to come from that on the Saturday morning when I got in I was made aware that there were phone calls coming in naming people but not saying how they knew many of the calls were of a similar nature as if if a room is going around and people are phoning in the rumor they've heard later that morning I was informed of letters that have been left in a telephone box someone had found it and then subsequently police had gone up to that area to retrieve the letter and when they come back this is my recollection of it another letter had been put on the window screen of their car saying the people responsible for the murder of Steven and other stabbings that had occurred that they were involved in at no stage at that point had we got any actual evidence somebody had called in at the police station or was given the name of Grant as a Pudin gave information and obviously information is in evidence there is a distinct difference the strategy was not to arrest they were juveniles you had to handle juveniles very carefully obviously to get them in to Simply relas them wasn't really making a lot of sense when Steven was murdered where was the support from the authorities it wasn't there and that's why we needed to exist in the Greenwich area Orville Blair Roland Adams Rohit dugall this was the fourth they were allowing them to carry on in this violent disordered way and they weren't protecting us the house has to fill up of people who I don't know that's SP all my time crying so I wasn't talking to anybody so I have no idea where they came from during we had to call the doctor in to give her something to calm her down she wasn't able to cope because she was so distru [Music] [Music] we would never known to go to a solicitor and Iman was somebody that came to the house on the Sunday I was in my office High Street practice when I got a call saying there had been a murder in southeast London and could I get over there straight away I think what we need to do first Mr Mrs Lawrence is to try and get some more background information there were two family as officers where he went and who with and so when I first met them it was obvious from the way that they were asking questions that they were there to obtain information well uh the names of Steven's best friends perhaps so they weren't coming to us and saying we've got this evidence and we were just going through what we've got they weren't doing any of that but why ask about black kids he was killed by white kids right no we we know that Mr what was was troubling at the time is that on the Sunday do you recognize the family asent officers were asking about some gloves that they' found they were found at the scene why did they need to know about these Gloves did Steven have a pair of gloves like these what are you implying are you implying that my son was a cat birler perhaps he might have recently acquired them to wear them when he went out at night and KN Stevens we got the impression that if you're black you must be a thief if you're black you must be into drugs you know you're a criminal so I had to tell him to leave my house and don't come back by the Sunday the information we had on this hackers was basically the same nothing to take us any further at that time a surveillance was going to be put on to them the next day which i' had arranged with a view to perhaps get some evidence of Association get to see what they look like whether they went to any other addresses I was under that impression that was going to be occurring on the Monday morning but it wasn't until later Monday the photographer was there and took photographs of somebody coming out the addess with black bin liners but they apparently never had a telephone with them or a radio to get in touch with anybody um and the surveillance team hadn't turned up on that at that occasion for whatever reason but by then of course I wasn't aware of any of this and I'd gone off the inquiry do we know who this chap is detective superintendent krampton his role was taken over by detective superintendent Weeden surely I mean if you know the the motive is racial you should be already looking for racialists I can understand uh it may seem quite a simple matter to say yes go and look for RAC racialists but uh of course it's rather more complex than that the neighborhood got involved instantly people on the estate know who they are they've done other acts of violence I think they were kind of terrorizing the community what sure name really you know I mean it's not I can't tell you that we had information that people were trying to give to the police there were actual addresses given that were ignored the letter that I wrote on the Monday was can you tell us what's happening what happened in the instant what are you doing about it it was a straightforward inquisitorial letter and it's unanswered you write another letter and it's unanswered I had no information to go on message was coming back to the lawrences that Dwayne wasn't being treated well by the police they had real concerns about him I'd like to speak to the officer in charge of the Steven Dons inquiry I had no information to go on I was ringing the police you see the problem Mr Weeden trying to get information and meeting a brick wall all they'd like to know is when you plan to make arrests what do we want Justice when do we want it now what do we want Jus when do we want it now hundreds of people have taken part in a vigil in southeast London tonight in protest against race attacks now there is anger that has strengthened their resolve to help find Steven's Killers one m two murder three murder four murder is more than enough we can't take any more of it and something has got to be done enough I think Neville to me at least felt like he almost became monosyllabic I don't think I really heard him speak much after that he's a sort of guy that would chuckle a lot and that just ended but the grief the sense of grief is really hard to be around ding after that cuz it was so palpable the waves of grief radiating off of her and the pensiveness it's not something it's not easy to be around it's not something that you can never really get used to in later life I've experienced death of loved ones my dad passed away a few years ago it's not the same it's harrowing but also the outrage the realization that we don't live in this fairy tale world that we've created for ourselves it came crashing in Steven is regarded as the fourth young victim of racial murder here in the past 2 years we have talk and we have talk and I'm saying the talking is over now it's time for Action we have to take our we have to deal with it ourselves I mean we're saying what does action mean though what kind of action action means by any means necessary the senior policeman who runs this area was telling me today that the advice he'd give you lot is to think seriously about joining the police force he hasn't got enough do you have a good relationship with the police can't trust them but man they pick you up for nothing oh jacking you up and [ __ ] just cuz you're black ain't right man in the old days trying to get the police to treat something as a racist crime was almost impossible you'd have to have somebody say my motivation in doing this is because I'm a racist that is what you'd need this is years decades centuries of culture that has its part of its DNA and assumption about the black communities when you were black and you were a victim of crime and you called the police the tendency was that the police somehow would start to investigate you and everybody understood it everybody knew it we can go as far back as the 50s 70s the ' 80s with the brickton riots you know the same thing keeps coming up we're not being treated fairly we're not being treated fairly what is that a chip on the shoulder is that stuff just the imagination the unsold murders you know of black you someone's imagination come on I found it hard speaking to people because I needed help and there was nobody to help that had experienced what I had experienced I was treated as a person that didn't have any feelings because I was just a main witness a main witness what the [ __ ] does a main witness mean to anybody the rumors that we heard was that Dwayne run away and left seven and in our early days nobody would run away and leave the other I don't know I I don't know why he didn't run but he he was always of the view that if he didn't do anything wrong to anybody and then he wouldn't run from something like that for me I I don't I'm not taking that kind of chance because danger is danger he knows he's forever will be the man that ran away and left his mate he knows that and I think Mrs Lawrence hasn't forgiven him they've never spoken of they since no they havn't I wanted to hear from him what had happened and he never spoken to me you want him to have the answers you want to make sense of the madness and in that you maybe forget that he's just a teenage boy that was wunning for his life we supposed to have our trust in them and and we think they they're doing a wonderful job but that is that's just a joke cuz I don't believe they're doing a wonderful job them times I was really angry because all the stories that you've heard of what happened to young black men and then you begin to think about had he been white they would have surrounded a black community they would have arrested as many black boys as they could and they would not stop until they get the killer but for Steven they're hoping that you know I would just shut up and go away United with stand and divided we four and that's how it should be we should be United one of the leers's officers said if you to come down to the police station you see all the work and all the stuff that we're doing and I asked why would I need to do that it's your job they weren't giving us information people came and gave us the boys names those are the only things that we knew we've been getting calls if they're telling us I'm sure they must be telling you we need evidence Mrs Lawrence show hard information I just got a bit of paper and I wrote all the names down and I handed the paper to this officer and I sat there and I would listen to all the discussion that was going on and in the meantime he would just fold the paper up oblivious to me being there and he folded it and he folded and he folded it so as I was walking out the door I said you're going to put that in the bin now aren't you and that when you realized that I was watching him now I'm seriously thinking that we're better off living in a community where we are surrounded more with blacks isn't there a danger that in doing that though that you polarize the whole situation so it becomes Us and Them well what what else can we do because the police are not really protecting our kids to make this work for the news media you have to deliver up some photo opportunities the South African Exile living in Britain phoned me up and said n Mandela is coming to London would you like him to meet Lorina Neville and of course I said H yes remember the door opened and I saw this tall elegant looking man coming and I'm thinking I'm in a dream we brought over Nel to Mandela to energize the white Community the contrast between the failure of British domestic politicians and the willingness of Nelson Mandela to become involved I think tells its own story we are very used to this type of thing where life is regarded as cheap in South Africa and but nevertheless uh it's a sense of De concern that it should happen in a country like Britain your tragedy is our tragedy getting Mandela on board changed it from a local story to a national story more importantly the next day with the arrests today they raided two addresses in South London so without him those first arrests would never have happened I honestly don't believe there was any linkage between Nelson Mandela or anything he said and the timing of the arrest with the same amount of information that they had from when they was telling that they can't arrest they arrested these guys the days after because of the sensitivity surrounding this case the police are saying little about the people they're questioning they didn't tell us about the arrest we saw on the local news so anything that we wanted to know about how the investigation was happening we see it on the news when they so choose to do something and you are Jamie AR a you've been arrested in connection with the murder of a Steven Lawrence do you remember the night of the 22nd of April no when your house was searched this morning in your room two knives were found tell me why you've got those knives no comment can you give me a full name Neil Charles Ault today you stood on an identification parade and you were picked out by Dwayne Brooks what have you got to say about that no comment why do you go around stabbing people no comment or is it anybody who wants to be a friend with you has to prove themselves by stabbing somebody no comment David Alan Norris are you going to tell us where you were that night no reply do you remember that night no reply I'm told by Stacy Benfield you pulled a miniature sword he describes it as you said shut up you C and then stabbed him in the chest you anything to say about that no my name is Gary George dubson someone's obviously trying to point the finger at me oh someone definitely has pointed a finger at you're more than one person son that makes me look I don't look like blacks have always suggested it was a racist attack no that's what the P was saying it personally I don't think it was a particularly racist attack I think it's incidental I stop the rec I remember everyone was extremely angry and there's going to be this demonstration down BMP our time for Revenge Roland Adams dead last year they murder Rohit Dugo in Alam in wellhall Road another person has been murdered on Steven Lawrence on the same road in wellhall Road the Black Panthers came to see me and they said would I leave the marsh they're calling to close the BMP headquarters what are we going to do tonight anti-race groups are calling on Beckley Council to close down the British national party's headquarters at [Music] Welling I had decided that I didn't want to be part of any kind of March doing had approach and ask if we wanted to be down there and I said no I know that I was angry and I know that I wanted to go and I was there anything that was associated with racism because Steve was killed was a [Music] Target in the front of the March was Dwayne Brooks and that's the day Dwayne was seen to overturn a BMW car that day we were attacked as black militants who had hijack this poor grieving family and the Daily Mail was in the Forefront of that negative reporting I saw the picture of the family meeting Mandela in the middle of this I kind of was taken back by the fact that the paper had seen it fit to put us in the middle of all this violence when we had nothing to do with it so the daily made send some journalist to do a story and I said to him who is the editor and he said Paul daker I said oh and he said to do I need to get the number I said no and he said why not I said well I have it we bought a house heed a lot of work doing I think one of the neighbors recommended NE Lawrence was a very good plasterer he came and did some Plastering us for for the house I remember this very quietly Spoken Man very sensitive man he apologized and said to me um U Mr Lawrence I didn't realize it was your your your son I said well look if you want to put the record straight give us an interview and sure enough a couple of days later the M carried a full exclusive interview with Dorian and Neville uh he made it very clear that he didn't want to have anything to do with the protests various different factions were trying to co-opt what was happening although people seemed to be suggesting that they wanted to be supportive it didn't feel like that it felt like jackals feeding on a carcass yes there were tensions lots of anti-racist organizations jockeying for pole position when we had criticism we withdrew hold on at the end of the day the Lawrence Family wrote to you and told you literally to get lost and it's not to say that their causes weren't just they were but we just need to maintain our focus on Steven's attackers arriving at court this morning the 17-year-old charged with the murder of Steven Lawrence it was a positive moment you know there was some confidence thinking that we're going to get somewhere it seemed to be closing the chapter because I couldn't do anymore now this was it we'd achieved our objective they were arrested and then they were charged the lawrences are appealing for calm at tomorrow's memorial service at their local church they say Steven will be buried in Jamaica next month because Britain doesn't deserve him this another one of those numb days you just go through the motion you know you just go through the motion of being there for me is just making sure everybody knew Steven was killed everybody needs to know what happened to my son Polie asked if they could come to the service and I said no we don't want you in there to me why [Music] my coping mechanism was to distance myself from personal I almost placed myself as a steward that as a pole Bearer at the funeral I've always been very proud of being from a mixed Heritage I always been very proud of both sides of my culture of being black and white and that never changed but it was tested absolutely tested many of us feel ashamed to be white I still hadn't accepted the fact that step was dead when you read the Bible it tells you in the days of Moses and the Pharaoh one of the punishment that used to be dished out was if you did something wrong you lose your first Bor and so I'm thinking maybe I done something wrong when I got the papers two suspects who been charged and they were due to be committed for trial the evidence presented to us in the summer of 1993 involved only one real issue and that was of identification was there sufficient quality identification evidence to carry the case forward the only real identifying witness was Mr Dwayne Brooks and all that he could say was that they were white they were wearing jeans and were young a fleeting Glimpse that by itself made the evidence very very weak and that already weak evidence was further undermined by a conversation that Dwayne had with an officer called Sergeant crowy look carefully and if you do recognize anyone on the third I parade I was picked up by Sergeant Crowley that particular time I picked out Luke Knight and I remember Crowley in his statement he said that I had told him that I was picking out suspects based on descriptions given to me by friends and Cy's statement was used to discredit me I don't remember a case where a conversation following an identification parade had such a dramatic effect effect Dwayne originally denied the accuracy of Sergeant Crow's statement but when a statement was taken from Dwayne Brooks to explain it he himself did accept that he had been given some information and it seemed to me the case was in lon's terms virtually hopeless no lawyer of any competence could have said we had enough two teenagers accused of murdering the black school boy Steven Lawrence have been released from custody after the the crown prosecution service ruled there was insufficient evidence against them I was so angry so so angry a black boy has got to the age of 18 he hasn't got a criminal record he's not into drugs he's not into carrying knives he doesn't hang about the street corners he's a studious person he goes to school or to college they can't accept that I just had enough I just really really had enough and I was gone you see Daren never start ringing around trying to find out where I am no because she said that she she would be home by by 3:00 and nobody knew where I was I didn't tell anybody either they're out looking for me that's what makes you think she gone to well or Road well I don't know whether she gone to well look look look look on the right over there look you know I just needed to think and question what's going on I think the worst possible thing that can happen to a mother happened to her so what more could be done I mean there's a fearlessness that comes with that that's sort of like okay you've done the worst thing possible so now this is this is nothing taking you on the killers are still out on the street my son had a future and they've taken that away and I just feel as if they were laughing at us there was nobody I think could look to pacify me no nobody could tell me no I presume they could but I I wouldn't accept it I wouldn't accept [Applause] it I think it's October I got arrested for violent disorder in a demonstration against the BMP Mr Brooks we're arresting you on suspicion of causing criminal damage on May the 8th of this year I think an officer who by chance was on one of the identification parades basically said he recognized D Brooks as being involved in the wedding riots my name is Jane dyon and I am Dwayne Brooks's solicitor there we have the victim of a violent murderous racist attack being prosecuted for violent disorder whereas the original perpetrators of the attack not a single one of them was being prosecuted I'm sorry but uh you that's rius behavior and Dwayne was on camera with others overturning a car if you have a key witness commits a serious offense what are the police and the prosecution to do what they were doing in effect was Goring away at the reliability and credibility of one of their own key Witnesses it's the system the institution Society every time you wanted the case move forward something would happen happen in the Met police that meant it moved backwards and Dwayne's arrest and his treatment by the police gave the impression there was a deliberate attempt by the authorities to completely undermine his evidence forever more [Music]