Episode 46 - Stephen Lawrence

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The brutal, racially motivated murder of 18 year old Stephen Lawrence on the streets of South East London was a watershed moment in British history. It revealed the shocking institutional racism that lay at the heart of the London Metropolitan Police. In this week’s episode Hannah and Suruthi trace this difficult, but desperately important, story from the climate of race relations before Stephen’s murder, how this fed into a corrupt police investigation - and ask why 25 years later, justice has still not been done.

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1:20.4	If you're in Britain, you will definitely know this one.
1:24.4	On April 22nd this year, 2018, just a few weeks ago, it was announced that from now on,
1:31.0	the 22nd of April will be known as Stephen Lawrence Day in the UK.
1:35.2	It will be a national day of commemoration for Stephen Lawrence, who was murdered on that day
1:39.6	in 1993 in Southeast London, in a swift brutal and racially motivated attack.
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