I watched Neville Lawrence being interviewed last night, first on Channel Four news and then on Newsnight. Considering all that has happened in this sorry, long-drawn out affair, over the last 20 years, I thought he behaved with immense dignity. But who can blame him for voicing doubts about whether this new Enquiry will actually achieve anything, when the Police have lied so much in the past ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26478546
How are the Augean Stables of the Metropolitan Police going to be finally swept clean, when every new Enquiry unearths yet more evidence that as fast as the muck can be taken out the front door, its still piling up through the back door ?
Whenever something like this happened, someone here on AB posts that their relative or friend is in the Met and they are wonderful chaps. I have no difficulty in believing that most Police Officers behave with exactly the necessary probity that is required of them. But the new evidence that is going to be investigated with the new Enquiry seems to show that corruption and sheer stupidity started at the top of the organisation, and wasn't confined to a few rogue racist Officers.
Next time you hear the Police complaining that they don't have enough "resource" to investigate crimes properly, perhaps they should be gently reminded that time might be better utilised to investigate the suspects rather than the friends and family of the victim.