PRESS RELEASE: STATEMENT OF BARONESS LAWRENCE IN RESPECT OF THE PAROLE HEARING RELATING TO STEPHEN LAWRENCE’S MURDERER
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Oct 9
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Updated: Oct 14
Baroness Doreen Lawrence makes the following statement in respect of the parole hearing relating to the convicted murderer of her son, Stephen Lawrence:
“It has been incredibly painful for me listening to this person’s application to be released from prison.
He is a racist who, with others, murdered my son Stephen. I will not name him.
It was vital that this hearing took place in public so that everyone could see and hear what was said by him and about him.
He says he’s sorry for the pain he caused me and my family. I don’t believe him.
The only person he is sorry for is himself. As far as I am concerned, he is a coward. He refused to show his face. He needs to look me in the eye and tell me exactly what he did and why he did it.
Whilst the parole board will now have to make its decision, having listened over two days, the evidence to me is crystal clear. He is not safe to be released. He is a danger to the public and a danger to people like me. He was a violent racist and still is a violent racist. He has not changed.
It has been numbing and incredibly frustrating to sit and listen to him describe the murder of my son. But he is not telling the truth. He was and remains a liar. Only if he tells the full truth can anyone, including me, start to think he is truly sorry. If he was truly sorry, he would tell us the whole truth, and I was hoping and believing that might happen over the last two days. It has added to the pain and hurt that I still feel that he has not done so. This man only feels sorry for himself, and he is just saying things which he thinks could get him released. He is trying to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes. The parole board should not fall for his lies and deception.
It is deeply shocking the police and authorities have known for years that he now accepts being part of the attack on my son.
The Met Police stopped investigating Stephen’s murder five years ago and have done nothing since, despite everything that has been revealed in that time.
The police must now urgently investigate. This person can name the other killers and says he would love to do so. The police must do everything in their power to obtain that evidence and bring all of Stephen’s murderers to justice. This man owes me the truth, and the Met ow me justice.
