the heart when he tried to intervene, but was acquitted on the grounds of self-defence), and Luke Knight have never been prosecuted for killing Stephen Lawrence, or for any of the other attacks in the Eltham area. Nor have they ever been prosecuted for clearly aiding and abetting the two people that have since been convicted of murder.

Most of that violent gang have become fathers in the years since 1993 - an experience that was denied many of their alleged victims, and was certainly denied Stephen Lawrence. That decision - to deny people the right to life - was taken by evil men, in their pursuit of nothing other than the enhancement of their own status. The question that haunts me, and should haunt us all, is how did we allow this to happen? How did we allow these evil men to place our town in such...

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