THE judge in the Stephen Lawrence trial has told the police not to close the file on the teenager’s murder.

After sentencing David Norris and Gary Dobson Judge Colman Treacy called forward Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll, who has been the senior officer in the case for a number of years.

He told him that the Macpherson inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Mr Lawrence's death had "shamed and humbled" the Met, but praised the hard work done in recent years.

Justice Treacy said: "At least a measure of justice has been achieved at last. However, the convictions of Gary Dobson and David Norris will not, I hope, close the file on this murder. On the evidence before the court, there are still three or four other killers of Stephen Lawrence at large.

"Just as advances in science have brought two people to justice, I hope the Metropolitan Police will be alert to future lines of inquiry, not only based on developments in science but perhaps also information from those who have been silent so far, wherever they may be."

At the Old Bailey today, Dobson, aged 36, was jailed for a minimum of 15 years and two months for murdering Mr Lawrence on Well Hall Road, Eltham in 1993.

Norris, 35, was sentenced to a minimum of 14 years and three months in imprisonment.