Matthew White’s stepfather Jack Severs told a detective in 1993 that White admitted his part in Stephen Lawrence's murder but information was incorrectly recorded and he was not approached for 20 years
The Met Police in June named Matthew White (pictured), who died aged 50 in 2021, as the sixth suspect in the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in April 1993.
After considering a file on the case for over two and a half years, the CPS has ruled there is insufficient evidence to charge any of the four retired officers with misconduct in public office.
Sir Mark Rowley said some errors made by investigators were so egregious that they would be impossible to repair, despite detectives moving heaven and earth in recent years.