Stephen Lawrence’s father has been able to dance for the first time since the murder of his son nearly 19 years ago.

Neville Lawrence, an accomplished jazz, soul and blues dancer, said he had pledged never to dance again until somebody was “doing time” for the 1993 murder of his son.

So the convictions of Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, for the murder of 18-year-old Stephen had been a watershed moment for him.

“When the guilty verdict was read out, ‘guilty’, I could not even believe it, because we had been waiting for so long, it is almost 19 years.

“One of the things which I have done over the years is to make a promise to myself that I would never dance again until somebody was doing time for the murder of my son.”