The Crown Prosecution Service announced today that it will not be taking any further action against the four Metropolitan Police officers.
None of the detectives involved in the botched initial inquiry into Stephen Lawrence 's murder will face criminal charges.
Only two men, Gary Dobson and David Norris, have ever been brought to justice for the murder of the black teenager who was attacked by a gang of racists in Eltham, south-east London as he ran to catch a bus in April 1993. Last year Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the murder investigation may never progress further because errors made by investigators were 'so egregious' that they would be impossible to repair, despite detectives 'moving heaven and earth' in recent years.
In October 2020 the Independent Office for Police Conduct announced inquiries by the NCA had concluded and it had asked the CPS to consider whether there was sufficient evidence to charge the four retired officers, now in their 70s and 80s. Prosecutors spent two and half years considering their management of the initial six weeks of the murder investigation before announcing last July that no charges would be brought.
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