Who was Stephen Lawrence case suspect Matthew White?

White, who died in 2021 aged 50, was convicted of an assault on a black shop worker near where Lawrence was murdered

The BBC has identified a new suspect in the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence 30 years ago: the now deceased Matthew White.

White died in 2021, aged 50. According to the BBC's findings, he was a drug user at the time of Lawrence's murder in 1993 and later became a heroin addict.