Duwayne Brooks was waiting for a bus with Stephen at the time of the murder.
Stephen Lawrence's murder and the failed investigation sparked a landmark public inquiry
In an interview with the BBC, Duwayne Brooks said he would have picked out Matthew White, who died in 2021, in a line-up.Stephen, 18, was killed in Eltham, south-east London in April 1993.The failure of the first police investigation prompted a landmark public inquiry which concluded the Met was institutionally racist.
"I am 100% certain that if that person was put before me, and the other witnesses, in the initial stages of the investigations on an ID parade, we all would have picked him out." Asked about the way evidence he provided about the sixth suspect - Matthew White - was handled, Mr Brooks said it was "corruption" and "decisions made back then were a deliberate act of sabotage".Mr Brooks originally spoke to the Sunday MirrorThe Met Police has consistently said there were six white men involved, as Mr Brooks said on the night.
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