The Guardian view on Stephen Lawrence: we owe his parents better | Editorial

His family forced British society to change its attitudes to race. But 25 years after his murder, progress is still too slow – and in some areas we are regressingIt is 25 years since a tragedy and crime evolved into a national scandal. Two of the five original suspects in the racist murder of 18-year-old Stephen Lawrence were jailed almost two decades later, following advances in forensic science, but Scotland Yard says it has no further leads. The time it took to secure those convictions,