Stephen Lawrence’s family have been failed for 30 years. Why does it fall on the BBC to do the Met’s job?

Metropolitan Police officers have spent three decades bungling, botching and burying evidence that should have brought all of Stephen Lawrence’s killers to justice. After a BBC investigation did their job for them, writes former chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal, the fury only grows

Doreen Lawrence will never get justice for her son. It is shameful that it has taken the BBC to investigate simply because the Met has failed again and again (PA Media)

At the time of the conviction of Gary Dobson and David Norris for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, I was one of the country’s chief prosecutors

So I remember every detail clear as a bell.

Everyone thinks they know who attacked Stephen. Luke Knight and brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt have been suspects for 30 years. All three have denied being involved. Neil Acourt and Knight were acquitted of murder in 1996.