The Murder of Stephen Lawrence

Stephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old Black British student, was stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack at a bus stop in Eltham, southeast London, in April 1993. Five suspects were identified early on, but acquittals and police failures prompted a landmark public inquiry that found the Metropolitan Police institutionally racist. After decades of campaigning by his family, two of the five suspects were finally convicted of murder in 2012.