Neville Lawrence, the father of Stephen Lawrence, the black British teenager who was murdered by white thugs in the early 1990s, wants Scotland Yard to fully respond to claims that the police agency withheld information from a key inquiry into its investigation of the matter, years ago.
His comments followed announcement that a new proble is to be carried out into allegations that senior policemen spied on the murdered teenager’s family.
Mr. Lawrence, a Jamaican, welcomed the new investigation, but said he was concerned that wider claims that officers did not fully cooperate with the 1999 Macpherson Inquiry into the original failed murder probe were being ignored.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has started an investigation into allegations of discreditable conduct and breaches of honesty and integrity on the part of Metropolitan Police commander Richard Walton.
He was temporarily removed from his job as head of the counter-terrorism command in March following the publication earlier this year of a report into the original Lawrence murder investigation and Macpherson Inquiry.
Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack by a gang of white youths in April 1993. In 2012, a jury found two men guilty of Lawrence's murder.
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