Part 2 of our first ever two-parter. And before we get into it, Hannah returns from Kilkenny having mugged an old lady 100 feet up a cathedral tower, singing Limp Bizkit to herself in a full-body panic. Meanwhile Rach has learned that some young people apparently do not know who Beyonce or Jay-Z are. Truly a low moment for civilisation.
Then it's back to Eltham.
Picking up where Part 1 left off in 1997, Rach walks through the Macpherson Inquiry and the moment it declared the Metropolitan Police institutionally racist, the shocking admission from the detective who led the investigation that he didn't know he could arrest anyone on reasonable suspicion, the lost years when the suspects kept racking up convictions for everything except Stephen's murder, and the extraordinary cold case work by DCI Clive Driscoll that finally uncovered the forensic evidence needed to convict Gary Dobson and David Norris at the Old Bailey in January 2012.
We then get into the Ellison Review, which uncovered that undercover officers had been spying on the Lawrence family while they were grieving. The 2023 BBC investigation naming Matthew White as the sixth attacker Duwayne Brooks had always insisted was there. The 2025 public parole hearing where David Norris finally admitted his presence at the scene but refused to name the other attackers, and the Parole Board's decision in December to keep him behind bars.
And then, because you can't tell this story in 2026 without saying it, a look at how much has genuinely changed in 33 years. The rise of Reform UK, the Tommy Robinson rallies, the 32 percent vote share in the borough right next to where Stephen was murdered, and why the reckoning this story demanded has not finished yet.
If you haven't heard Part 1 yet, go back and start there. And do please visit the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation to learn more about Stephen's legacy and the work being done in his name.
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