On Saturday, 30 years after Stephen Lawrence was killed, his mother and other members of his family gathered at a memorial service in London to remember him. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, and Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, were also in attendance. Sir Keir made a short speech and read a poem by Maya Angelou at the request of Stephen's mother, Baroness Lawrence. The anniversary comes after Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, apologised for failings in the aftermath of the killing, with the force's response to the investigation being branded institutionally racist in the 1999 Macpherson Report. Stephen was stabbed to death on April 22 1993 in an unprovoked, racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Eltham, south-east London, after he was set upon by a gang of white youths shouting racial slurs and brandishing weapons. The bungled original investigation hampered by racism and alleged police corruption meant it took nearly 20 years for

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