good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the bbc can, for the first time, name a major new suspect in the murder of stephen lawrence after a special investigation into the uk s most notorious racist killing 30 years on. these five prime suspects became widely known after the murder, but the met police always maintained there were six attackers. today, the bbc can name matthew white as the sixth suspect. he died in 2021, aged 50. we ll have more on white in a moment, but first, let s look at the main events of the last three decades. it was in april 1993 that stephen lawrence was stabbed to death by a gang of young white men in eltham, south east london, while waiting for a bus. he was 18. after police investigations failed to produce results, the family brought a private prosecution in 1996, but no one was convicted. three years later, the macpherson report, which resulted from a public inquiry ordered by the government, found that the met police was institutionally
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