Stephen Lawrence Bio, Age, Height, Parents, Wife, Net Worth, Facts

Stephen Lawrence was violently murdered in an unprovoked racist attack in a crime that shook the nation.

Stephen Lawrence Biography

Stephen Lawrence was born in Greenwich on 13 September 1974 to Jamaican parents who had emigrated to the UK in the 1960s.

Stephen Lawrence Age

Stephen Lawrence is 18 years old.

Stephen Lawrence Nationality

Stephen Lawrence is an American

Stephen Lawrence Parents

His father is Neville Lawrence, then a carpenter, and his mother is Doreen, then a special needs teacher. Brought up in Plumstead, South-East London,

Baroness Doreen Lawrence was born in Jamaica in 1952 and emigrated to England at the age of nine.

She completed her education in South East London, before becoming a bank worker.

Born ten years earlier, Neville also moved to Britain from Jamaica and worked initially as a handyman and decorator.

The couple met when Doreen was just 17, and they wed in 1972.

Together they had three children – Stephen, Stuart and Georgina.

The couple was propelled into the public eye after their son Stephen was fatally stabbed at a bus stop in South East London in 1993.

It wasn’t until May 2011 that killers Gary Dobson and David Norris were finally found guilty of the murder – 18 years after the tragic death.

No other suspects were charged.

Thanks to his parents’ tireless campaigning, a public inquiry was launched into the circumstances around Stephen’s murder.

The probe found the Met was “institutionally racist” – and that this was one of the primary causes of their failure to solve the case.

Stephen Lawrence Siblings

He was the eldest of three children, the others being Stuart (born 1976) and Georgina (born 1982).

Stephen Lawrence Career

During his teenage years, Lawrence excelled in running, competing for the local Cambridge Harriers athletics club, and appeared as an extra in Denzel Washington’s film For Queen and Country. At the time of his death he was studying technology and physics at the Blackheath Bluecoat School and English language and literature at Woolwich College, and was hoping to become an architect.

On 23 April 2018, at a memorial service to mark the 25th anniversary of his death, Prime Minister Theresa May announced that “Stephen Lawrence Day” would be an annual national commemoration of his death on 22 April every year starting in 2019.

A ‘Stephen Lawrence Research Centre’ was built at De Montfort University, located inside the Hugh Aston building. Lawrence’s mother was appointed as Chancellor of the university in January 2016.

Novelist Deborah Crombie uses the turmoil following the Stephen Lawrence murder as a flashback setting in her 2017 book, The Garden of Lamentations. The story includes police officers who were undercover on both sides of the protests, as well as widespread corruption for years afterward.

Crombie includes an explanation of the murder in her Author’s Note at the end of the book, but specifies that the rest of the characters are not meant to represent actual people.

The report, titled “The Stephen Lawrence Independent Review”, was presented to Parliament on 6 March 2014. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said the report, which prompted an inquiry into undercover policing, was “devastating”. Ellison’s report also showed that there was substantial evidence linking an alleged corrupt police officer with involvement in the murder of private investigator Daniel Morgan.

Doreen Lawrence was elevated to the peerage as a Baroness on 6 September 2013, and is formally styled Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, of Clarendon in the Commonwealth Realm of Jamaica; the honour is rare for being designated after a location in a Commonwealth realm outside the United Kingdom. She sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords as a working peer specialising in race and diversity.

Stephen Lawrence Girlfriend

Information about Stephen Lawrence girlfriend unknown.

Stephen Lawrence Net Worth

Stephen Lawrence exact net worth is unknown.

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