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. clive driscoll, who d caught two of stephen s killers, found the right stepfather two decades after he tried to speak to police. i said, i m detective chief inspector clive driscoll. i ve come to talk to you about the stephen lawrence murder. to which he said, you re rushing thisjob, aren t you, officer? he actually said that to me. the stepfather said 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.
clive driscoll, who d caught two of stephen s killers, found the right stepfather two decades after he tried to speak to police. i said, i m detective chief inspector clive driscoll. i ve come to talk to you about the stephen lawrence murder. to which he said, you re rushing thisjob, aren t you, officer? he actually said that to me. the stepfather said 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 into the inquiry. i ve 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.