The mother of Stephen Lawrence said today that reliving his murder through the new ITV drama will be very difficult , but the next generation need to learn about the impact his death made on Britain.
Baroness Doreen Lawrence, 71, was discussing the upcoming ITV drama Stephen, which stars Steve Coogan as DCI Clive Driscoll, joined by Sharlene Whyte and Hugh Quarshie.
Her son Stephen was stabbed to death aged 18 on April 22, 1993, in a racist attack in south-east London for which charges against the killers were initially dropped.
DCI Driscoll later put together an investigation that secured the convictions of two members of the gang who committed the murder.
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When writer Chris Brandon first came up with the idea for Bloodlands five years ago, he never for a moment thought that the end product would be a prime-time series on BBC One. I think, in my head I was like, I m gonna make this for a fiver with my best friend, laughs the 39-year-old, who grew up in Strangford. I d been working as an actor in London for about 10 years and then I started writing and I ve been doing that full-time now for five years.
Bloodlands is Chris s first original drama series commission and the first drama from newly-formed production company HTM Television.