'How I found the new Stephen Lawrence suspect 30 years on'
Earlier this week, the BBC publicly named a major suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder. In response, Stephen's mother Baroness Doreen Lawrence said, "It should not have taken a journalist to do the job that a huge, highly resourced institution should have done." Correspondent Daniel De Simone started investigating the case after the Metropolitan Police stopped.Stephen was murdered 30 years ago in a racist attack by a gang of young white men.
When I got a name, I realised the man - Matthew White - was the person in the case known as Witness K. A constant source of help and advice was Clive Driscoll, the retired Met detective who had brought two of Stephen's killers to justice. He told me that following the two murder convictions he achieved in 2012, he had focused on the other killers.One of those he investigated was Matthew White, and Clive told an extraordinary tale of finding that an approach by one of White's stepfathers had been disastrously mishandled by the Met in 1993.
I had to try to get across three decades of evidence, much of it hidden in police files. I gained access to previously secret documents about the case and read every transcript from the 1998 Macpherson public inquiry into the murder. Several people helped me confidentially, providing crucial information during the process of checking and corroboration.
I sought to crosscheck everything else I was finding on White against other evidence, including witness accounts from 1993. White surely had an alibi for the night, given that he was known as Witness K and appeared so prominently in narratives of the case? I built a timeline of the night of the murder and the days following it. I also listed and investigated all possible case theories relating to White: these included various ways in which he could have played a part in the group that attacked Stephen, and various ways in which he could, instead, have been a witness.
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