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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 I?

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...

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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'How immigrants should be
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'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.

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.

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 I.

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.