The family of Stephen Lawrence's lives were forever changed 30 years ago today.
The 18-year-old was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Eltham, South West London on April 22, 1993.
The case highlighted the racist attitudes of the police at the time and led to a recall of the rule against double jeopardy.
It would be 19 years before any kind of justice would be served when Gary Dobson and David Norris were jailed for Stephen's murder.
The night Stephen was killed he had been at his uncle's house with his friend Duwayne Brooks before deciding to head home at about 10pm.
While trying to find a bus home, six assailants surrounded Stephen and stabbed him repeatedly before running off.
Stephen's injuries were so catastrophic that he died before making it to the hospital 20 minutes after the attack.
There were three witnesses to the attack and all of them said it was short and sudden but none were able to identify the suspects.
In the days after Stephen's murder, several residents came forward to provide the names of the five suspects.
The five main suspects were named Gary Dobson, brothers Neil and Jamie Acourt, Luke Knight and David Norris.
It was later revealed that officers handling the investigation were phoned three times by a woman who said she saw the attack.
Within three days of the crime, the suspects were identified by no one would be arrested for another two weeks.
Police also did not go to the suspects' homes for four days after the stabbing.
During a public inquiry in 1998, it came out that the reason why arrests were delayed was because the detective superintendent on the case at the time in 1993 didn't know the law allowed him to make an arrest upon reasonable suspicion.
The first arrests came on May 7, 1993, when the Acourt brothers and Dobson were arrested.
Norris turned himself in to the police and was arrested three days later.
Neil Acourt was picked out of a line-up and was charged on May 13.
Knight was arrested on June 3, 1993. and he was charged 20 days later.
By July 29, 1993, the charges were dropped after the Crown Prosecution said there was insufficient evidence.
Deeply unsatisfied, the Lawrence family launched a private prosecution against the two who were previously charged Neil Acourt and Knight and the three other suspects Jamie Acourt, Dobson and Norris.
The charges against Jame Acourt and Norris were dropped before the trial because of a lack of evidence.
On April 23, 1996, Neil Acourt, Dobson and Knight were acquitted of murder by a jury.
In the trial, the judge said any identification evidence given by Stephen's friend Duwayne was unreliable.
The inquest into Stephen's death was held in February 1997. All five suspects refused to answer any questions, claiming the privilege against self-incrimination.
A jury determined it was an unlawful killing in a "completely unprovoked racist attack by five white youths" after 30 minutes of deliberating.
This verdict led the Daily Mail to run its controversial front-page labelling all five suspects as murderers.
None of the men ever sued for defamation.
By July 1997, the then Home Secretary Jack Straw ordered a public inquiry into the matters related to the killing of Stephen - which was known as the Macpherson Report.
In 1999, the report finds the police were guilty of mistakes and "institutional racism" and makes a series of recommendations on changes to policing and wider public policy.
It also suggested a rethink of the principle of "double jeopardy", to allow the retrial of acquitted defendants in exceptional circumstances if new evidence emerged of their guilt in murder cases.
In 2002, Norris and Neil Acourt were jailed for 18 months for a racist attack against a plain-clothes black police officer.
Norris had thrown a drink at the officer from a car and shouted "n*****" while Acourt drove the vehicle at him during the attack in May the previous year, in Eltham, South East London, less than a mile from where Mr Lawrence was murdered.
In 2004, the CPS again says there is "insufficient evidence" to prosecute anyone for murder.
The recommendation of scrapping the double jeopardy legal principle made in the MacPherson is honoured in 2005. This means that suspects who were previously acquitted of murder can be retried if "fresh and viable" new evidence comes to light later on.
This led to a cold case review in 2006 and re-examined all forensic evidence with new technology that had been developed since the murder.
In 2007, police confirmed they were investigating new evidence.
The cold case review was held in secrecy but it was later revealed that Stephen's blood was found on Dobson's jacket and Stephen's hair was found on Norris and Dobson's clothes.
With this new evidence, Dobson and Norris were arrested and charged on September 8, 2010.
Dobson was already in prison for drug dealing, and as he had been previously acquitted an application was made to the Court of Appeal to quash his original acquittal.
These proceedings were private at the time to ensure a fair hearing. Dobson's acquittal was officially quashed in April 2011.
In May 2011, the CPS announced Dobson and Norris would face trial for Lawrence's murder in light of "new and substantial evidence".
The trial started at the end of 2011 and on January 3, 2012 - the jury found both men guilty of Stephen's murder eight hours after deliberating.
Dobson was sentenced to 15 years and two months, and Norris was jailed for 14 years and three months.
At the time of the murder, Dobson was 17 and Norris was 16, as the judge explained this means the minimum starting point for their sentence would be 12 years and "lower than some might expect".
Both launched appeals against their convictions, but they lost in the first round.
Dobson then dropped his appeal in 2013.
In 2018, then Prime Minister Theresa May announced that April 23 would be 'Stephen Lawrence Day' and the annual commemoration of him.
