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,
david norris and gary dobson were jailed for the murder a decade ago. luke knight and brothers neil acourt and jamie acourt have never been convicted. stephen s friend duwayne brooks survived the attack. he said there were six attackers, and the lead one had bushy, light brown hair. the prime suspects didn t fit the description. so who was the fair haired attacker? i ve obtained surveillance photos taken by the murder investigation days after stephen was killed. they show matthew white with bushy, light brown hair, similar to the e fits and artist impressions by eyewitnesses. 0riginally treated as a witness, white knew so much that an independent investigation then told the met to check if he d been there during the murder. he was also mentioned in a crucial
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 stephen lawrence murder , to which he said, you re rushing thisjob, 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,
bushy, light brown hair. the prime suspects didn t fit the description. so who was the fair haired attacker? i ve obtained surveillance photos taken by the murder investigation days after stephen was killed. they show matthew white, with bushy, light brown hair, similar to the e fits and artist impressions by eyewitnesses. originally treated as a witness, white knew so much that an independent investigation then told the met to check if he d been there during the murder. he was also mentioned in a crucial note from 1993 in a met database. i ve obtained that note, which contained a vital lead buried by the met. it said matthew white s stepfather had told a detective his stepson wasn t telling police everything. but the note named the wrong stepfather white had two.
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 stephen lawrence s 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