The Power of Arrest

Jack Straw home secretary at the time had a different angle he advocated that because the headline had come from a right wing paper like the mail it gave the Labour government some space. The public inquiry into the police investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence was launched in March 1998. Dr Richard Stone medical adviser to the McPherson inquiry found that although all of the officers on the scene had passed first aid courses none of them knew the ABC of first aid Airways breathing circulation none of them even knew that they literally didn't know the first thing about first aid. Police also admitted that they did have enough evidence to arrest two days after the murder but didn't because that's key as well after the Mandela