description: Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence, the son of Jamaican immigrants, was murdered on the night of 22 April 1993 whilst standing at a bus-stop, by a gang of white youths. Cathcart wrote a long piece about the murder and all its ramifications for Granta magazine (59), and this is the basis for his book: an account of the crime, the investigation and the criminal culture of South-East London that gave rise to the murderers.
language: English
title: The Case of Stephen Lawrence
titlecomplete: The Case of Stephen Lawrence
characters: Stephen Lawrence
genres: Race, Crime, True Crime, Journalism, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 72
places: London, England, Plumstead, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Orwell Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: ALCS Dagger for Non-fiction
publisher: Viking