Daily Mail
April 11, 2014
The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has been named the most powerful woman in the country in a list compiled for Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
Home Secretary Theresa May, who was ranked second in last year’s inaugural Woman’s Hour Power List, said Baroness Lawrence was ‘an example to us all’.
Her son, an 18-year-old student, was stabbed to death by a group of up to six white youths in an unprovoked racist attack as he waited at a bus stop in Eltham, south east London, with a friend on April 22 1993. It took more than 18 years to bring two of his killers to justice.
Mrs May said: ‘Faced by a terrible tragedy, she picked herself up and carried on fighting to ensure that justice could be done, and the fight still continues.
‘What is most striking about this woman is the great strength that she has shown over decades – strength to carry on, to keep on going, even in the most difficult times when all seemed impossible.
‘Also striking is the persistence that she has shown, because she has never given up.
FGM), child poverty and internet safety.
Journalist Emma Barnett, who chaired the judging panel, said: ‘It was no easy feat to come up with just 10 women who have ‘changed the game’ – so we had to develop a thesis.