Brian Cathcart is author of The Case of Stephen Lawrence and Were You Still Up for Portillo? He was previously deputy head of the Independent on Sunday. He Lives in London.
’ My name is Brian Cathcart. I grew up mainly in Northern Ireland. My father was headmaster of a secondary school and my mother taught English. I come from Protestant stock, though I have no religion myself. I studied history at university. I remember the Troubles starting, the war in Biafra, the Beatles.’
‘Stephen Lawrence was murdered on the night of 22 April 1993, in Eltham, a south-eastern suburb of London.‘
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