Only two of the five suspects have been jailed for Stephen’s murder. Each appears to have been as hollow as the next and some appear downright hypocritical,” Khan said. “Baroness Lawrence is exhausted by the number of times that she has been given reassurances and promises. He reminded Mitting that he too had promised to disclose information about the surveillance to her three years ago. “She is none the wiser as to why she and her family and supporters were spied upon,” he added. Khan said she considered it “an utter disgrace” that Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the then Met commissioner, had failed to honour a promise made six years ago to release to her documents detailing the surveillance operation on her family. To say that Baroness Lawrence is disappointed is to understate her position.” This inquiry is not delivering on what she was promised and is not achieving what she expected. Imran Khan, Doreen Lawrence’s QC, told Mitting she “is losing confidence, if she has not already lost it, in this inquiry’s ability to get to the truth the truth as to why she, her family and supporters were spied upon by the police. At least three undercover officers spied on them. May commissioned the inquiry after discovering that the Met planted a “spy in the Lawrence family camp” who gathered personal details about Doreen and Neville as well as “fascinating and valuable” information about their campaign. The inquiry was set up by six years ago by Theresa May, the then home secretary, after the Guardian revealed that a Scotland Yard undercover unit had spied on the Lawrences while they were trying to compel police to investigate properly their son’s murder. Lawyers for Stephen’s parents gave opening statements on Tuesday at the public inquiry that is looking at how undercover officers spied on more than 1,000 political groups over more than 40 years.
He too called on Mitting not to fail him as he had “been failed so badly by the state over so many years”. Her criticisms of the public inquiry were echoed by her ex–husband, Neville, who said the progress of the heavily delayed inquiry did “not lead him to feel confidence in its approach or in its outcome”.
She spoke of how she had mourned the loss of her son every day since he was killed by a racist gang in 1993. She told Sir John Mitting, the judge leading the inquiry, that he had “the choice of either being one of those in the long line of those that failed or those very few that did not”. She said she was “exhausted” by a long line of “hollow and downright hypocritical” promises made by police and others in authority during her family’s long quest for justice.
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