Met 'is still racist five years after Macpherson'

A senior black police officer said today the Met is still institutionally racist five years after the publication of the Macpherson report.

Chief Inspector Leroy Logan, head of the force's Black Police Association, said lessons have not been learned from the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, which prompted the report.

The 18-year-old was stabbed at a bus stop in Eltham in April 1993. Sir William Macpherson said institutional racism in the Met was partly to blame for the failure to bring Stephen's killers to justice.

Now, on the report's anniversary, Mr Logan said: "I don't believe we have gone anywhere near the depth of change we need to prevent a similar incident occurring again."