What the records say
- When
- 22 Apr 1993
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 51.46° N, 0.05° E
- Description
- Black student Stephen Lawrence, 18, is stabbed to death in Eltham, London. Police suspect that the murder was racially motivated.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Murder of Stephen Lawrence.
Murder of Stephen Lawrence
1993 killing in London, England
Stephen Adrian Lawrence was an 18-year-old black British student from Woolwich, southeast London, England who was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus on Well Hall Road in Eltham, on the evening of 22 April 1993. The case became a cause célèbre; its fallout included changes of attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice.
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