Malorie Blackman

Exactly.

Well, Stephen Lawrence was a teenager who was walking home with his friend in Eltham, part of London.

And they were jumped by five white guys.

And Stephen Lawrence was beaten to death.

And...

And then the Lawrence family were anonymously told who might be responsible and they went to the police and the police treated it like the friend was a suspect, first of all, and then the family were dismissed.

And the whole thing was just a complete miscarriage of justice to begin with.

And in fact, only two of the five

who allegedly committed the crime have been brought to justice but um it the whole thing was just watching reading it in the news as it was happening and then watching the docu drama just really drove it home as the the contemptible way that the lawrence family had been treated

And it was one of those things where, you know, a boy had lost his life.

And the way they were treated, the family were treated as if they weren't human.

It was terrible.

And so I just kind of, I just really, really wanted to address what that is like when you're kind of, you know, things like...

when I go into a department store and being followed around by security guards or staff because they think I'm going to steal something, or if you go into spaces and people are giving you a second and a third and a fourth look, kind of like, well, why are you here?

And, you know, and it's...

Things like at school, when I said to my careers teacher, she said, what do you want to do, Mallory?

And I said, I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was eight.

And I said, I want to be an English teacher.

I want to go to university and do an English and drama degree.

And I want to be an English teacher.