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Stephen Lawrence is an 18-year-old sixth form student who was stabbed to death in Eltham, south London, on the night of April 22, 1993. It soon became clear that the murder was motivated by racism. Stephen Lawrence's murder was simply and solely and unequivocally motivated by racism. It was the deepest tragedy for his family, and their treatment by the police and their own conduct of the investigation was an affront to whole of the black community. Nobody has been convicted of this awful crime. That also is an affront both to the Lawrence family and the community at large. All five suspects were arrested, questioned and released on police bail in the two months after the murder. Two of the five were finally charged with murder and appeared in court in June 1993. But the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) discontinued its case in July 1993, arguing that there was "insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of a conviction." Despite the emergence of new evidence, the CPS refused to re-open murder charges.