Neville Lawrence at Buckingham Palace, London, after receiving an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II, for services to community relations. Mr Lawrence, co-founder of a charitable trust in his son s name, said It is such a pity that I had to get something like this for such a tragic thing. * ... in my life, he said. I feel a little bit of sadness. Stephen was viciously stabbed to death by a gang of racists in an unprovoked attack in south London on April 22, 1993. No-one has been convicted of the crime.