Met police is ‘arrogant and resistant to change’, Doreen Lawrence says

In the 25 years since the damning Macpherson report, ‘so much more needs to be done’ by police force, says mother of Stephen Lawrence

• Thirty years after Stephen’s murder, 25 years after the official inquiry, why won’t the Met change? | Doreen Lawrence

Scotland Yard has been accused of arrogance and resistance to change by Doreen Lawrence, 25 years after the publication of the damning Macpherson report.

In an article for the Guardian, the social justice campaigner said it is “sickening to feel that the same issues are still happening today”, in reference to the insufficient progress since the report in February 1999 about the force’s flawed investigation into the murder of her son, Stephen Lawrence.