Legal Lawrence parents

Doreen and Neville Lawrence, the parents of murdered black teenager Stephen, during a news conference at the Home Office after hearing Home Secretary Jack Straw reveal the outcome of the judicial inquiry into their son's death. * The report, produced by Sir William Macpherson of Cluny, into the police investigation of black teenager Stephen Lawrence's murder, branded the Metropolitan Police "institutionally racist and listed a catalogue of bungling which led to the failure to catch the student s killers. 13/10/00: Doreen and Neville Lawrence are to receive a compensation payment of 320,000, after they had originally demanded 500,000 from Scotland Yard, and had recently turned down an offer of 250,000, according to the Daily Mail of 14/10/00. (Photo by Michael Stephens - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)