Stephen (2021) s01e02 Episode Script

1
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.
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.
Thank you for coming.
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?
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.
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
..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?
'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" '
For goodness sake!
Goodness.
Excuse me, you've just hit my car.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Hey! No! No, no!
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.
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!
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 THROA
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Hello. Hello. Ooh.
Does your nose do that?
Heh-heh.
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.
'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.
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.
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
..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.
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
..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.