Stephen Lawrence: The 6th Suspect
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
How the BBC uncovered a new suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder.
Adam speaks to home affairs correspondent Daniel De Simone who has spent the last two years looking into the police investigation into the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence - the UK's most notorious racist killing. Daniel’s investigation has for the first time named a major suspect in the case.
We also hear from former BBC correspondent, Danny Shaw, who has reported on the story and the subsequent inquiry, investigations and trials over the last 30 years. And Jane Deighton, the lawyer for Duwayne Brooks, who was with his friend Stephen on the night of the attack talks about the toll it’s taken on her client.
You can watch ‘The Big Cases, Stephen Lawrence: The Sixth Suspect’ on BBC iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0fwqkm8/the-big-cases-stephen-lawrence-the-sixth-suspect
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Today's Newscast was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Alex Collins and Jack Taylor. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The senior news editor was Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello, the BBC's got a big scoop today on a story that has run for decades and decades. |
| 0:11.8 | It's the police investigation and the various trials and then investigations into how the |
| 0:16.6 | police investigated the murder of Stephen Lawrence, which happened in April 1993, and of |
| 0:22.7 | which there were lots and lots of implications, like an inquiry into the Matt Police in 1998, |
| 0:27.8 | which found that they were institutionally racist. |
| 0:30.6 | So the latest piece of work, and it is a huge piece of work, has been done by colleague |
| 0:34.9 | Daniel D'Simone, who's here. Hi, Daniel. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi there. So the big news is that you have, and the BBC have named this sixth suspect |
| 0:45.7 | in the merger of Stephen Lawrence, and he is, or was. |
| 0:49.1 | Matthew White, he's a, someone who's always in the case for several years, he was in the |
| 0:53.2 | case as a witness. He died two years ago, age 50, and he was an associate of what, known |
| 1:00.3 | in the case, but he's the five prime suspects there, the sort of, if anyone knows anything |
| 1:04.6 | about this case, they'll sort of remember there's these five guys from Elton, who were |
| 1:08.6 | early on, you know, thought to have been responsible for the murder. There was various attempts |
| 1:13.2 | to get them on trial, convict them. The police failed, you know, they failed early on. |
| 1:18.6 | They failed through the nineties. It led to a big public inquiry later in the nineties, |
| 1:23.1 | which said the met was institutionally racist. That was one of the reasons why it failed |
| 1:28.0 | to catch Stephen's killers. But actually, in the case, you look at it, the evidence was |
| 1:33.6 | that there were six attackers from the friend who was Stephen that night, Dwayne Brooks. |
| 1:38.1 | Other eye witnesses were sort of four, five, so it was a bit, there was kind of a conflict, |
| 1:41.9 | but Dwayne said six, and the police have always said six. So this investigation really |
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