Steve Coogan shoots scenes for new ITV crime drama about the murder of Stephen Lawrence

Steve Coogan was spotted filming the latest scenes for ITV’s new crime drama Stephen, about the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence in London on Monday.   

The actor, 55, who plays the role of DCI Clive Driscoll in the real life story, was pictured on set in a football kit running out of a police station. 

The series, which is a three-part sequel to the 1999 drama The Murder Of Stephen Lawrence, will portray events starting from 2006- 13 years after Stephen’s death in a racially motivated attack whilst waiting for a bus in Well Hall Road, Eltham. 

Steve plays DCI Driscoll, the detective who put together an investigation that secured the convictions of two members of the gang who committed the death of 18-year-old Stephen on the evening of 22 April 1993. 

The actor was joined on set by several crew members as the nighttime filming got under way. 

Wearing an overall khaki waxwork jacket, a monochrome scarf and a vintage football kit, Steve was pictured running out of a police station.  

The Alan Partridge star joins Hugh Quarshie and Sharlene Whyte in the programme titled Stephen. 

The series has been endorsed by the murdered teen’s parents Doreen and Neville Lawrence, played in the 1999 original by Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Hugh respectively.   

While Hugh, 66, will reprise his role as Neville, We Hunt Together star Sharlene will take on the role of Doreen in the new drama. 

Richie Campbell, Jordan Myrie, Sian Brooke and Adil Ray will also take roles in the production.  

Executive producer Mark Redhead said: ‘It’s a privilege to be working with Doreen and Neville Lawrence to tell this chapter of the story of their campaign for justice for Stephen. It’s a story that moves and inspires and is ever more resonant and relevant today.’ 

Even though the Lawrence family knew the identity of their son’s killers, the original investigation failed to convict those responsible.

Their extraordinary campaign for justice led to a public inquiry which branded Metropolitan Police institutionally racist and brought about sweeping changes in the law and police practices and transformed thinking and understanding of racial inequality in the UK.    

Yet six years on from the Inquiry no progress had been made into the case.  

Producer Madonna Baptiste said: ‘The Lawrences’ campaign for justice totally transformed attitudes to race and equality in the UK and it’s an honour to be able to help tell what is an untold chapter in their story. 

‘Current events only highlight how relevant and important Stephen’s case remains and it is such a privilege to work with Hattrick, Frank and Joe Cottrell-Boyce, Alrick Riley and our amazing cast to bring this important story to screen.’    

Paul Greengrass, award winning screenwriter and director, who wrote and directed The Murder Of Stephen Lawrence in 1999, will also serve as an Executive Producer, as will Line Of Duty’s Jed Mercurio.

It would be four years before an inquest was held into Stephen’s death, when a jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing in a completely unprovoked, racist attack.

The gang of five suspects all refused to answer any questions at the inquest, and still the police seemed powerless to prosecute.  

Determined not to let the five escape scot-free, the Mail took an unprecedented step. 

Their pictures were published on the front page, on 14 February, 1997, under the headline: ‘MURDERERS. The Mail accuses these men of killing. If we are wrong, let them sue us.’ 

Two of the five accused by the Mail, Gary Dobson and David Norris, stood trial for Stephen’s murder in 2011, following a ‘cold case’ review, and in the light of ‘new and substantial evidence’, they were found guilty and jailed for life.

Norris had been convicted and jailed with another of the five, Neil Acourt, for racially aggravated harassment, in another case.