The Metropolitan Police says it apologises “if this was not investigated as it should have been”.

Well that’s the most limp non-apology I’ve heard in a while.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In June, a BBC investigation publicly named White for the first time as a suspect in the murder of Stephen and exposed a series of police failings relating to him.

The disastrous initial Met Police investigation failed to bring anyone to justice and a landmark public inquiry concluded the force was institutionally racist.

White’s barrister described telling his client it was a “good idea” to change his plea in relation to the syringe “because the CCTV clearly puts you there holding this up and it is not, you know, in a jovial manner or trying to warn them not to get too close”.

In a statement to the BBC, the Met Police said it understood that Mr Ikpeze had “told officers that White had shouted racial abuse and made threats to kill” in 2015.

The Crown Prosecution Service told us the attack on Mr Ikpeze had been “a horrible crime” but there had been “no mention of racial abuse” based on the evidence provided by the police.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward told the BBC the Met remained “satisfied that all relevant enquiries related to Matthew White were fully considered by the investigation team prior to his death in August 2021”.

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