Original subtitles

When my son was murdered,

the police thought, "Just another Black boy stabbed."

You're telling me that there's nothing you can do,

and I don't accept that.

What the hell is Operation Fishpool? This is all one case.

I'd like to take on the Stephen Lawrence murder.

This is not a whodunnit. We know who done it,

and yet no-one has been held to account for young Stephen's murder.

His body was covered in bruises and abrasions

from being kicked and punched.

There were two stab wounds. No, overarm, like you're bowling.

Well, there's a pattern.

He's a decent witness,

delays in following 'em up, and changes of heart.

What kind of evidence?

These were found on Dobson's jacket, and these on Norris' trousers.

Microscopically indistinguishable from Stephen's polo shirt.

You realise this is the first physical evidence

linking any of the suspects with Stephen?

Mistakes were made, but this is my case now, so will you trust me?

Trust has to be earned.

He told me not to tell nobody, but it's all here.

What? Same old Met.

DOREEN: A dream has come true here today.

This building will be a nurturing space,

but it will also be a space of high expectation.

We still have an uphill battle against the low expectations

society has for Black children.

So this will be a space where we see your gifts and expect excellence.

And when I see the work you young people are already achieving,

your creativity and ambition, that, to me,

is the best way we can remember and celebrate Stephen.

APPLAUSE

Thank you for coming.

SHOUTING OUTSIDE, GLASS SMASHING

Come on!

I've called the insurance company already.

Mr Driscoll.

I take it you're not here about the broken glass.

What happened? This is not the first time.

Some people don't like what we're trying to do. So?

Er, I wanted to straighten things out.

The business with the newspapers.

I'm confident the leak didn't come from my team.

Oh, I got some doughnuts. Thought maybe...

I'm glad you're confident, but I'm not,

because to me, this is the same old Met,

so concerned with publicity that you'll jeopardise

the investigation for a good headline.

Mrs Lawrence, I was as furious as you were when I read the headlines,

the story...

Do something for me. Read these.

Out loud.

"If you don't like this country, get in your canoe

"and go back to where you came from."

I mean... No, go on.

"You ungrateful Black bitch." Look, this is a hate crime.

I get this rubbish every time Stephen's in the paper.

I made the choice to fight for my son,

rather than keeping my mouth shut, and I pay a price for that,

but I resent paying for the Met's publicity stunts.

I know we haven't done much to inspire your confidence

over the years, but this is my case now.

We've got a real chance here. The forensics are promising.

But if there are people in the Met working against you,

you have a problem.

You need to ask yourself why there are people in your organisation

who don't want you to succeed.

Birdy. Did we, er, get the statement from the witnesses?

SLAMS DOOR

This is one of the most sensitive investigations

on the Met's books, and we can't even get a door that closes.

I've been on to estates.

We wanna nail this case, don't we?

Right, well, there are people out there who don't want us to nail it,

people out there who don't want us to succeed where they failed,

people who want to make excuses, blame the victims.

Well, I can't do anything about those people, but I tell you,

if I find out anyone in this office has been leaking stuff to the press,

I will deal with them... thoroughly.

From now on, no paperwork left lying around.

We're all accountable.

DOOR SLAMS

They were all as gutted as we were, Clive.

Incoming forensic reports, you and me only. Keep 'em in the safe.

Anyone else, as and when required.

They closed Rolan's school,

and asked if we wanted the memorial plaque before they knocked it down.

How you keep going?

It's a life sentence, Neville.

I've accepted that.

All I can do is try to make my anger... productive,

use it to bring about change.

But it changed me, you know? That's the problem.

It's stolen my memories. I...

I can't see Stephen's smile, I can't hear his laugh

without thinking about the killers and feeling so much hatred.

I pray so hard for the strength to forgive.

Forgiveness? Huh!

I mean... have they shown any remorse?

No. No. That's the problem.

Then it's not your problem.

Forgiveness... is not yours to give.

They have to ask. They have to atone.

Without that... HE CLICKS HIS TONGUE

..dangerous, man.

How you mean? Lets the country off the hook, man.

Lets people think that, that we can do without justice,

without accountability.

When Rolan was killed...

..the BNP called his murderers "heroes of the white race".

I remember that. Right.

But when we protested, it was us they called extremists.

It was our children that the police harassed, and not the racists.

And now, now they want us to forgive and move on,

so that they can carry on and pretend that all is well in England.

No. Uh-uh.

When England finally gets angry

about Black children being lynched in the streets,

when the police and the government say enough is enough,

maybe then I will let go my anger.

But until we have real change...

..I'm not gonna cheapen my son's life...

..with forgiveness.

Uh-uh.

I've made contact with most of the coppers from the scene that night,

mostly retired now, and mostly none too thrilled to hear from me.

What about Duwayne Brooks? He wants nothing to do with us.

But I was sort of thinking, do we really need him?

I mean, this case is gonna rest on the forensics, yeah?

Forensics are slippery eels.

Get a scientist on the stand, half the jury will glaze over.

We need them to hear Duwayne's story,

along with any other witnesses we can persuade to come forward.

Give me the files from the kids on the estate again.

They're our best hope at the minute.

Louise? Clive Driscoll.

I'm a detective investigating the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

I don't wanna talk to you. You did wanna talk, though.

You responded to the witness appeal in 1993. That took real guts.

No. Sorry.

Five minutes. Just a chat.

All right. But you're not coming in my flat.

I wasn't from the area.

I just used to see a boy off the estate.

That's how you knew the Acourts? Yeah.

Knowing they've killed a boy, having a secret like that, it was horrible.

When I did tell the police, they didn't seem interested,

so after that...

Yeah, well, after that, you didn't trust us.

Exactly.

And meantime, I was hearing things about David's dad.

Clifford Norris. Yeah.

People getting threatened, and worse.

I was 15. I was clueless, petrified.

Look, Louise, this isn't 1993.

If you do the right thing, there won't be any repercussions,

and we can protect you from the likes of Clifford Norris.

I'm not being rude, but if you haven't managed to catch those boys

after all these years, why should I believe you can protect me?

DOOR CLOSES

ENGINE STARTS

RADIO: 'Financial report about the Olympics. I mean, just bizarre.

'I mean, I think Boris is hoping one day to be leader of the Tory Party

'and Prime Minister, and his party's never gonna let him do that,

'any more than the Labour Party would let me do it. Too big a risk.

'So this is the best job he's ever gonna have in politics,

'and my advice would be, "Do it..." '

CAR BEHIND ACCELERATES, BUMPS

SHE GASPS For goodness sake!

Goodness.

Excuse me, you've just hit my car. Excuse me.

KNOCKS ON WINDOW Excuse me.

Hey! No! No, no!

TYRES SCREECH

SHE PANTS

COMPUTER KEYBOARD CLACKING

How much longer am I going to have to wait?

Someone will be with you in due course, madam.

Can you not check it out?

Your colleague said 20 minutes an hour ago.

HE SIGHS Name?

I don't know, they didn't... No, your name. What's your name?

Doreen Lawrence.

I'm afraid at the moment all of our officers

are currently busy on high-priority calls.

This was a car-jacking. Surely that's high priority?

If you wouldn't mind waiting,

I'm sure someone will be with you in due course.

On him, now, there! You do it every time!

MOBILE RINGS

Hello?

Wh...

I've got to go.

I'm sorry.

I wanna speak to the officer in charge of Mrs Lawrence's case.

Sorry, who are you? DCI Driscoll, Specialist Crime Directorate.

Oh, sorry, guv.

Quick as you like, son. Yeah, of course.

Are you hurt? I can take you to A&E. Oh, no, I'm fine.

They didn't touch me. But I left everything in the car,

my wallet, I'll have to cancel all my cards...

We'll sort it all out. Don't worry.

Right, the duty inspector will be here in a moment.

Can I get you a cup of tea in the meantime? I'm fine.

Yes, please, Sergeant.

Two teas, and, er, some biccies if you can rustle 'em up. Sugar, Mrs L?

I'll just take milk, thank you.

As a peace offering it was appreciated,

but as a cup of tea...

Shocking. He'll never make inspector like that.

Did he put the milk in the mug with the teabag still in it? Ugh.

I'll make us a proper cuppa.

Here, I'll do that. You've had a shock.

I'm not a damsel in distress, Mr Driscoll.

Mr Driscoll is what my teachers called me at school

before they gave me six of the best.

Clive will do, I think.

OK. Thank you, Clive, but I'll manage.

We've had to turn this house into a fortress.

There's a cost to speaking out. Yeah, I can see that.

I have to say, though, you ain't half good at it, speaking out.

I reckon there must be a lot of powerful people who have nightmares

about getting the hairdryer treatment from Doreen Lawrence.

I didn't plan for it.

I thought the killers would just be arrested.

Never expected getting justice to be my job.

No, well, it shouldn't have been.

But here we are, 15 years later. Mm.

Do you have children? Yeah, five. Four boys and one girl.

The eldest is in Afghanistan, as it happens, yeah. Marine.

Mm, you must worry about him. Sick to my stomach.

It's funny, when I was away at Hendon for basic training,

he'd, er, he'd come up and he'd cling onto my leg,

"Don't go, Daddy."

And now the shoe's on the other foot.

I have to stop myself clinging onto him every time he ships out.

You know, erm, I, er... HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

I can't even begin to imagine the strength

it must take to keep fighting all these years.

Yeah, sometimes, I really do feel like giving up.

But then I sleep, and I dream of him, and, you know,

he's so sad and angry at not being alive.

It's horrible. So I keep going.

It's not about feeling strong. I don't feel strong.

I just don't have a choice.

RADIO: 'From London's newsroom at seven o'clock.

'Helping you breathe more easily, London gets a new low-emission zone.

'How immigrants should be taught how to queue in shops,

'and why Cameron's losing ground in the power stakes.

'Good morning, I'm...'

Birdy, I need you to get one of your DCs

to track down Clifford Norris.

Old man Norris? Why?

A witness, Birdy, what else?

These were found on Norris' trousers. Two hairs.

The mitochondrial DNA is a thousand-to-one match with Stephen.

His hair? That's a significant find, surely.

Well, a thousand-to-one isn't as strong as the fibres,

but it's corroborative.

It adds detail to the picture. Good.

Let's hope there's more where that came from.

It is good, but we need to prove how it got there.

We've had a couple of breakthroughs on the case.

But we're looking at a 15-year game of pass-the-parcel

when it comes to exhibits.

We've had internal reviews, external reviews, private prosecution.

The defence are gonna be looking for any opportunity

to cry contamination.

I need to know every time anyone touched, moved,

opened, or even glanced at an exhibit.

So, hang on, you're talking about forensic evidence.

New and compelling forensic evidence.

But for it to be worth anything, we need to prove

there was absolutely no opportunity for Stephen's clothing

to have contact with the suspects' clothing after the fact.

I need someone I can rely on to do that, and that's you.

All right.

But I was working at Woolwich when Stephen was killed.

I remember the atmosphere. Let's be honest, Del, back in '93,

the Acourt gang would have fitted in better with the Metropolitan Police

than young Stephen.

I guess what I'm asking is, is this real?

Does the brass actually want us to solve this murder?

We're not doing this to please the Metropolitan Police.

The Lawrence family have lost a son.

We're murder police, we work for them.

Makes a change to have the police call a meeting,

instead of us demanding one.

Jocelyn. Are we the first here? I think so.

Jocelyn Cockburn? Yes.

And Neville Lawrence? Yes, that's correct.

Thank you.

DOOR OPENS

Neville.

Doreen. Imran.

The forensic review is on-going, and we've made another significant find.

Human hair strands have been identified

on two of the suspects' clothing.

Stephen's hair?

We think so. It's a thousand-to-one DNA match.

Is that enough? Are we talking about bringing charges?

Not yet. We wanna build the strongest case possible,

and to achieve that,

we need solid witnesses as well as forensic evidence.

Previous investigations have treated some crucial people badly.

Duwayne Brooks being an example.

They treated that boy like a prime suspect.

Yes. We let him down.

But when it comes to trial, we'll need him.

So you think there will be a trial?

We're increasingly confident, but as it's a double jeopardy case,

the CPS will want to consult the family on re-prosecution.

As in, do we want a prosecution?

I know it sounds like a daft question. There's no question.

There's never been any question about our commitment.

The question is whether the Metropolitan Police

are actually going to support the prosecution this time around.

We've been here twice before, you know.

We don't want to go through that disappointment again.

I know. You have my word.

It's not your word I'm worried about.

I mean, let's not beat around the bush.

I'm still worried about corruption.

Look, when it comes to previous investigations,

I'd like answers to a lot of questions.

Will I get those answers? Probably not.

All I can say is I'm the SIO now...

and I have no intention of letting anyone interfere

with my investigation.

'DC Derek Reid calling.

'We're trying to establish the chain of custody

'for exhibits in the Stephen Lawrence case,

'and I have some questions regarding his clothing.'

On the night of the murder,

you brought Stephen's clothing back to the station unsealed, to Eltham?

Er, no, not to Eltham.

I mean, it was drenched with blood, so I took 'em to Southwark.

They had a drying room there. They were sealed once they were dry.

So, during that process, there's a lot of wet blood,

the bags aren't sealed.

Could you have transferred blood to the outside of the evidence bag?

I mean, I wore gloves, but it's possible.

You seized Dobson's jacket on 7th of May.

Was it bagged at the scene? Yes.

Right.

Erm... only, in your notebook,

you made an entry about sealing exhibits

back at Plumstead nick later that day.

Well, I mean, I would have followed best practice.

We're just trying to fill any gaps. If you can help us, great.

If you can't remember, understandable.

We're on the same side here.

So when Stephen's clothes arrived from Southwark,

did they go into a secure evidence store?

Er, no, it wasn't an evidence store, really. It was just an unused cell.

What, so there was some kind of shelving, partitioning?

Unfortunately not, no.

As I remember it, Stephen's clothing was stored on the bed.

The bed?

Well, yes. I mean, like I said, it was a cell.

MOBILE RINGS

Shaun. 'Clive.'

'Birdy's found a witness.'

Follow-up from a canvas a few years back.

I think you might want some face time with this one.

I'll see you back there. OK. Keep him comfortable.

I'll be there in about half an hour.

I'd had a drink in Woolwich, and then I was walking home

to where I was lodging, and I was almost at the Well Hall roundabout,

and that's where I saw, you know, the... the bother.

What did you see, exactly?

I saw David Norris, Gary Dobson and the two Acourts

laying into the Black kid, Lawrence.

How many drinks had you had?

I don't know, six, seven pints, few chasers.

So you were drunk. I was pissed. I weren't blind.

You weren't local, so how did you know who they were?

A bloke I worked with pointed them out to me a few weeks before,

told me to watch out for 'em, said they were aggy,

carried knives and that, you know.

Can you give us his details, the bloke that pointed them out to you?

I can do. I don't know if he'll talk to you.

I ain't spoke to him in ten years.

Why didn't you come forward at the time?

Well, no-one asked me, did they? So...

Well, we were on the radio, on Crimewatch, in the papers.

We were begging for witnesses.

Well, if you want the truth, I'm a racist,

so I won't lose any sleep over him.

So why talk now?

They came and asked me, I told them what I knew.

I ain't afraid of the Acourts.

He was drunk.

On the other hand, he's a fully paid-up racist, which is helpful.

No reason to lie. If we can find the other workmate,

get him to confirm he pointed out the gang, firm up the ID,

we might finally have a useable witness.

My anxiety is that some of this forensic evidence,

though compelling, is not exactly new.

What do you mean?

Advice we've had from legal counsel is that it isn't good enough

to call evidence new because we've just found it,

if we really should have found it before.

Even though your tests have found traces of Stephen

on the suspects' clothing, it was more difficult,

but not impossible, to conduct this kind of analysis in '93.

The Met can't afford another Stephen Lawrence trial to collapse.

What are you saying? What I've always said.

That I doubt this review

will produce anything strong enough for a retrial.

You don't even have a decent witness. We're working on that.

It isn't enough.

I am sorry, Clive, but we need more than this for the CPS.

All right, then.

We'll just have to find more, won't we?

I've got some more bad news, I'm afraid.

Tracked down our racist's workmate. Don't tell me.

Denies all knowledge.

Says he didn't know the suspects.

Everyone in Eltham knew the Acourt gang. Exactly.

But he's not playing ball. LIFT BELL DINGS

Hello. Hello. Ooh. Does your nose do that?

Heh-heh. BABY COOS

As you can see, Clifford Norris is no threat to you,

or anyone else, for that matter.

He's living in a bedsit, pickling his liver on the dole.

He won't be buying many coppers with his giro, I promise you that.

I'm sorry.

I thought it over, but I've got her to think about, you know?

Louise, he's not a player any more. He can't hurt you,

but you could make a difference to the Lawrence family.

You could give them justice. But why me?

Everyone knows who done it.

I wanna help, but I can't. I'm sorry.

I was so sure she was gonna do the right thing.

I must be losing my touch.

It's the Eltham Omerta, isn't it? Here, got this in today.

Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Jamie Acourt's apparently a regular guest

in a drug wiretap they're running.

They're classing him as a high flight risk.

Bags packed, ready to go, they reckon. Christ.

Can we request surveillance?

They won't even pay for a bolt for the door.

If they're as connected as SOCA reckons,

it isn't just the flight risk. They could intimidate witnesses.

We limit case conferences.

Think about who actually needs to be there.

We can't afford another leak.

DOREEN: 'I look around here today

'and see the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary,

'the Archbishop of Canterbury.

'It's an honour to see you all here, of course it is,

'but I wish you weren't here.'

I wish we didn't need to be here. But we do.

We have to keep Stephen's memory alive

because we still don't have justice.

For me, for my family,

the pain of our loss remains undiminished after 15 years.

The campaign for justice for Stephen continues,

as must the wider fight to combat racism, discrimination,

and prejudice.

APPLAUSE

Stephen was my benchmark.

I was always trying to reach his level and, annoying as it was,

I was never quite as good.

He's made me aspire to be the best person I can be,

and I can't thank him enough for that.

I loved my big brother.

He was killed by hate, but I believe that love is stronger than hate,

that, in the end, love will conquer hate.

PHONE RINGS DS Birdsall speaking.

OK. Yeah, I'll get him to call you.

DIAL TONE

MOBILE RINGS

Excuse me, I'll just get rid of this, if you don't mind.

Can't speak right now. You need to call forensics, ASAP.

It's Clive Driscoll. We've found Stephen's blood.

What?

You found it where?

We've found Stephen's blood on Gary Dobson's jacket.

Dear God.

Hello, Clive. Oh, Mrs L.

You look very smart. Well, I do try.

I, er, I have to say, it's an honour.

That was a beautiful service.

And the case? How's everything going?

Well, I mean, it's going well. Good.

There. You see that?

That discolouration there is the blood of Stephen Lawrence.

It's on the back of the collar, which fits.

When you stab someone, as you pull the knife back,

there's a little judder as you reach the end of the trajectory,

so any droplets of wet blood often hit the back of the clothing.

And the key thing here is that that isn't a flake.

It's saturated, stained into the fabric,

which means the blood was still wet when it landed there

during the attack. So this is A1, Rolls-Royce evidence?

Indeed. With a cherry on top.

Is it too good? How can evidence be too good?

As in, is it so good it should have been found a long time ago?

Amplified fragment length polymorphism forms of analysis

weren't available during earlier investigations.

We couldn't have confidently confirmed this was Stephen's blood.

Right, well, the only thing I understood there was

"We couldn't have done this before", and that's all I need.

This is new and compelling evidence.

This is getting serious now, isn't it?

If we rely on forensics, we'd better be confident...

MOBILE RINGS ..about the chain of custody.

Hello? 'DCI Driscoll?' Who's this?

'We're running a piece on the developments

'of the Stephen Lawrence case. Wondered if you wanted to comment.

'On or off, your call.'

I need to know your source. Course you do.

So, is it gonna be enough, then, this new DNA evidence?

You cannot run this story. We're dealing with flight risks.

HE SCOFFS You're serious?

Look, we got off on the wrong foot here.

You give me an angle that works for you.

All right, I've tried to appeal to your sense of civic duty.

How about this?

If you run this story, I'll hold a lovely big press conference,

with refreshments and everything, and I will name you personally

as having sabotaged the Stephen Lawrence murder investigation.

Afternoon.

Sorry to keep you waiting. Mark Ellison QC.

Is everyone here? Do we have our forensic people?

Er, yeah, that'll be Ed and Angela.

A lot seems to rest on the fact that this blood stain

was soaked into the fabric.

Well, yes.

The nature of the staining would suggest the blood was uncoagulated,

fresh, when it got there.

These tests that you do to the clothing,

do any of them involve moisture?

Well, we did use the Phadebas Amylase test to detect saliva.

That does involve a dampened paper press test.

So if I was the defence,

I would be saying the blood stain was the result of contamination,

and only soaked into the weave of the fabric when it was dampened.

I think that's a highly improbable hypothesis.

If you say that on the stand, we've lost.

An improbable hypothesis is reasonable doubt.

If I may, with forensic evidence such as this,

we're dealing with degrees of probability.

No, not good enough. I need you to go away

and prove the absolute impossibility of this blood stain

coming from any sequence of events,

other than the jacket being at the fatal attack.

Right.

Well, we'll, er, go back and review. Good.

Del? I thought that was you. Ha-ha! You all right, Jenny?

It's been years. Yeah.

You still with Trident? Er, no. No, I'm... I'm actually on

the Stephen Lawrence case, as it happens.

You? No way. Part of Doreen Lawrence's private police force.

What's that supposed to mean?

Come on, you must be pulling your hair out on that job.

I mean, it's not like anyone wants to face the actual truth

about Saint Stephen.

Which is what?

Well, it was a gang thing, wasn't it?

Stabbed with his own knife after he tried to rip off a dealer.

Everyone knows.

I tell you what, then, Jenny.

You send everyone across to us. We'll happily take their statements.

DC Derek Reid calling again.

I had a question about the tape seals.

You said they were checked every time, right?

So how was that recorded?

In 1998, you resealed a couple of our exhibits. Yeah.

Can you explain the deterioration on the packaging?

Just to clarify, you're saying that when the suspects' clothing

arrived in Eltham,

Stephen's clothing had already been sent off for analysis?

What date was that?

We've tracked every single exhibit since 1993.

We know where every item was at one time.

For example, LH/5, Dobson's jacket,

that was also handed over to Kent Police on 23rd of June 1997.

It remained sealed and in a cupboard with the other clothing exhibits.

Tricky, Tricky, this is all very comprehensive, very impressive,

but for now, what's the headline?

What are we looking at in terms of opportunities

for cross-contamination? The headline is this.

The thing the first investigation took the biggest kicking for,

that two-week delay between the murder and the arrests?

Now it's our saving grace. You've lost me.

None of the suspects' clothing was seized and brought to the station

until 7th of May.

Stephen's exhibits were sent for forensic examination

a week before that.

Stephen's and the suspects' exhibits were never at the same station

at the same time.

So opportunities for cross-contamination

back in '93 were... Vanishingly small.

Clive, Duwayne is in the paper with the man running for mayor.

Boris?

'No, no, no, the other one. The Liberal.'

Ex-police officer. Duwayne campaigning for him.

Yeah, Brian Paddick. I remember him from my Brixton days.

Well, there you go, then.

Maybe he can put in a good word for you.

I really, really appreciate you making time, Mr Brooks.

Brian said you were one of the good guys.

That's the only reason why I'm here.

Thing is, we're making headway with Stephen's case. Really?

15 years of headway, and what do we have to show for it?

I'm sorry. We let you down. No, sorry, you didn't let me down.

You tried to stitch me up. OK?

You arrested me for protesting the murder of my friend

whilst his killers walked free.

I am sorry, Duwayne.

You were treated appallingly.

The thing is, I need your evidence to lock up the bastards

that killed your friend. I already gave my evidence.

I was a scared kid.

I knew that the Acourts could come after me...

..but I still identified Neil Acourt and Luke Knight.

You were brave. You stood up for your friend.

But it didn't matter, though, did it? Because no-one believed me.

I did everything the police asked of me,

and they still acted like I was hiding something.

It was unfathomable to them that a Black man

could just be an innocent victim.

Look, I won't ask you to trust the police. Why should you?

But I am gonna charge these men. And when I do,

it will rest on forensics, cold, hard science.

There'll be a lot less wriggle room

for anyone who doesn't want to see justice for Stephen.

So why do you need me?

Because forensics alone won't be enough.

You were there. You can bring it to life for them.

So, we made 12 attempts to reconstitute blood fragments

using Phadebas substrate.

Sorry, can you imagine that you're trying to explain this

to a five-year-old? Sorry.

We took tiny samples of Stephen's dried blood

and applied different liquids, but the samples became jelly-like.

The blood wouldn't have been able

to soak into the weave of the fabric, even if it was rehydrated.

So? My conclusion is Stephen's blood was fresh

when it soaked into the jacket.

Which means that Dobson's jacket must have been present

at the murder scene. Yes. Well, that's music to my ears.

Let's hope that this is enough to get us over the line with the CPS.

Ah, Clive.

Detective Superintendent Jill Bailey will be joining us for the meeting.

All right?

Given the level of scrutiny the Met can expect going forward,

I thought your team would benefit from Jill's support

as reviewing superintendent.

I've never had a reviewing superintendent before.

Never heard of one, actually.

Yes, well, this is a unique case.

What will you be reviewing, ma'am? Me?

I hope I can provide some guidance when it comes to

the more politically delicate aspects of the case.

Over the past two years,

we have followed a series of significant evidential leads

in the investigation into Stephen's murder.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has now reviewed this evidence

and provided us with an update.

Mr and Mrs Lawrence, Stuart, I won't beat about the bush.

The fact is, we have found Stephen's blood

on the jacket of one of the suspects.

We've also found hair,

clothing fibres belonging to Stephen on the clothing of several suspects.

As a result of this, the DPP has agreed that we can charge

Gary Dobson and David Norris for Stephen's murder.

Hope to execute the arrests within the week.

I'm sorry.

I know this has been a long road for your family.

I know this is good news, but...

Yes... SHE SNIFFS

..we have waited a long time for this.

But that's two. There were five.

The forensic evidence against Dobson and Norris

is stronger than what we have against the other suspects.

The DPP doesn't want to endanger the stronger cases

in a joint prosecution. So they get away with it again.

No, no. We take down Dobson and Norris first,

but this is an on-going investigation.

I haven't forgotten about the others.

If there's a disparity in the evidence,

then separate prosecutions is sensible.

OK. If that's the best way forward, then I'm OK with that.

You know, when we first met,

you promised me you'd do your best for Stephen.

Thank you for keeping that promise.

Well, thank you, both.

Er...

I don't take the trust you've placed in us lightly.

You understand that following these arrests,

there's likely to be renewed attention on your family.

We can deal with that.

We're ready.

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