The Stephen Lawrence trial started yesterday and today prosecutors revealed the new evidence that they plan to present during the trial.

Prosecutor Mark Ellison QC told the jury the case would be about textile fibres, and blood and hair on
clothing that was seized from the defendants in 1993.

Via The BBC

During his opening statement, Mr Ellison said that a cold case scientific team had re-examined forensic “tapings” of Gary Dobson’s jacket, looking for possible clothing fibre matches.

Scientists found 11 fibres that matched Stephen Lawrence’s clothing, and one appeared to include blood, he said.

And he went on to say that blood found in an evidence bag that originally held a jacket belonging to Mr Dobson appeared to match Mr Lawrence’s DNA, with a one in a billion chance that it did not belong to him.

The court also heard that two hairs were found in an evidence bag used to store Mr Norris’s jeans, one of which was 2mm long and was found to match Mr Lawrence’s DNA, and that this DNA profile was “assessed as being quite rare”.

And a total of seven fibres were also found on Mr Norris’s sweatshirt which potentially came from two items of Mr Lawrence’s clothes, the jury was told.

Mr Ellison said the blood stain found on Mr Dobson’s jacket would not have been detected in the 1990s because “the size was well below the minimal size capable of useful analysis”.

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Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack at a bus stop in April 1993.

Nobody has been convicted of his murder.

Rest In Peace Stephen Lawrence.