when it comes down to this case. there were five prime suspects. two were finally convicted a decade ago. but stephen s friend, duwayne brooks, who survived the attack, said there were six attackers. our investigation today identifies a new suspect for the first time, this man, matthew white, and reveals serious failings by the met. white s stepfather contacted the met after the murder, but the wrong name for him was put into a database and the lead was not pursued. a new investigator traced the right man 20 years later. i knocked on his door and said, i m coming to talk to you about steven lawrence murder , to which he said, you re rushing this job, aren t you, officer? he actually said that to me. the stepfather said white admitted to being present at the attack. it wasn tjust him. another witness had given a statement to the met years before, in 2000, saying white told him
serious failings by the met. white s stepfather contacted the met after the murder, but the wrong name for him was put into a database and the lead was not pursued. a new investigator traced the right man 20 years later. i knocked on his door and said, i m coming to talk to you about steven lawrence murder , to which he said, you re rushing this job, aren t you, officer? he actually said that to me. the stepfather said white admitted to being present at the attack. it wasn tjust him. another witness had given a statement to the met years before, in 2000, saying white told him he was part of the attack. and i ve got surveillance photos from 1993, that show white looked like the unidentified lead attacker described by stephen s friend and eyewitnesses. white died in this bedsit in 2021,
the right stepfather two decades after he tried to speak to police. i knocked on his door and said, i m coming to talk to you about steven lawrence murder , to which he said, you re rushing this job, aren t you, officer? he actually said that to me. the stepfather so that matthew white admitted being present during the murder and that white had said that stephen deserved it. the macpherson inquiry in 1998 examined how white was handled. police provided the note, naming the wrong stepfather. i found that absolutely shocking, staggering, that wrong information would be fed to the inquiry. i discovered that in 2000, detectives spoke to a separate witness who saw white shortly after the murder. he said white admitted being there during the attack, and playing a leading role in it. during the attack, and playing a leading role in it. matty ran over to him and leading role in it. matty ran over to him and gave leading role in it. matty ran over to him and gave him