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Stephen Lawrence was killed while waiting for a bus in south-east London.Two men have been found guilty of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager stabbed to death by a gang of white youths at a London bus stop in 1993.The
high-profile case has had a major impact on race relations in Britain.So who was he?Stephen Lawrence was 18 when he died, and 18 years later his name is back on people's lips as Gary Dobson and David Norris are convicted at the Old Bailey.His death in Eltham, south-east London, was a tragedy for his family but also became an event which led the nation to reflect on attitudes to race and justice.A public inquiry into the unsolved murderaccused the Metropolitan Police of “institutional racism” and incompetence.The Macpherson Report's recommendations in 1999 also triggered a major reform of the justice system in England and Wales.Stephen was born on 13 September 1974 at Greenwich District Hospital in south-east London to Neville and Doreen Lawrence, who had emigrated from Jamaica in the 1960s.Lawrence family's neighbour
He had two younger siblingsand the family grew up in Plumstead and attended Trinity Methodist Church in Woolwich, where Stephen was christened.Stephen's character at home and school was shaped by an ethos of tolerance, religious faith and education.His father Neville, now 69, was a carpenter, upholsterer, tailor and plasterer, while Doreen took a university course and became a special needs teacher.As a young child, Stephen was good at most subjects at school, but loved to draw and paint and favoured art and maths.By the age of seven he had resolved to become an architectwho led the church where the Lawrences worshippedStephen's parents, Neville and Doreen.Nelson Mandela, then leader of the African National Congre, visited the family during a visit to the UK.Stephen Lawrence was attacked by a group of white youths in south-east London The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Council, Trevor Phillips, believes the family's humanity touched the nation.“For the first time the British public saw parents, a family, whose grief was so patent and whose dignity was so clear, that everybody could identify with them.White Britain realised that, actually, black Britain and black Britons aren't really that different.”
The murder became what is known as a “signal crime”a location which suggested a determination to understand what life was like for mixed communities in the inner city.Doreen and Neville Lawrence in 1995 The attendance as witnees of five white men who had been suspects in the Lawrence murder saw anger spill over.They were showered with miiles and abuse from a largely black crowd as police escorted them from the inquiry.However, the subsequent report inquiry pointed its finger, not at suspects, but at the police.It concluded that the Metropolitan Police was “institutionally racist”-that its structures and procees inevitably resulted in racist outcomes.The finding was greeted with horror by many in Scotland Yard, but it prompted a transformation of the service: its recruitment, training, practices and accountability.Other legislation went further.The Race Relations Amendment Act 2000 placed a new duty on public bodies to eliminate discrimination and promote racial equality.Diversity and racial awarene became key parts of workforce training in both the public and private sectors.Profeor Peter Saunders, author of The Rise of the Equalities Industry, argues the focus on race has become counter-productive.“The more that we go on about the problem of institutional racism in our public service institutions, the more it erodes the trust of the public in those institutions,” he says.“That is a heavy price to pay.It would be a price worth paying if those institutions were badly flawed but very often it turns out that they are not.”
One member of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry panel, Dr Richard Stone, says the riots last August demonstrate that institutional reform has not gone far enough.“I came out of the inquiry absolutely full of enthusiasm,” he says.“Now it all seems to have dribbled away.The current disparity in stop and search(of black people)is very disappointing indeed and creates a huge amount of anger in black communities.There are also disparities still in the employment of black and Asian officers.”
Problems still exist but Britain is much more at ease with its racial diversity than it was two decades ago.And that tolerance, in no small part, is the legacy of a teenage boy: Stephen Lawrence.
