Cuttings
De Menezes officers 'should face a jury'
Lawyers acting for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes are to mount a legal challenge against the decision not to charge individual officers involved in the shooting, concluding that a review of available evidence 'justifies a prosecution for murder'. (Guardian, 1 Oct 2006)
Met not guilty plea over Menezes
The Metropolitan police have pleaded not guilty to breaching health and safety laws over the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005. (BBC, 19 Sep 2006)
De Menezes inquest adjourned
The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will not be held until criminal proceedings against Scotland Yard are concluded, a coroner ruled.
...The Metropolitan Police is being prosecuted under health and safety laws over the fatal shooting of the innocent Brazilian by its anti-terror officers.
If the police plead not guilty and the matter is sent for a crown court trial next year, the inquest is unlikely to be held before 2008 at the earliest. (Guardian, 7 Sep 2006)
Top officer in Stockwell shooting in line for promotion
The senior police officer involved in the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is being backed for promotion to the upper echelons of British policing by Sir Ian Blair, the Guardian has learned.
Commander Cressida Dick is applying to be a deputy assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan police, a month after finding out she will not face criminal prosecution over the killing of Mr De Menezes at Stockwell tube station in July 2005. (Guardian, 9 Aug 2006)
De Menezes shooting: why you'll have to wait for facts
...The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) told a meeting of Lambeth's Community and Police Consultative Group (CPCG) it would not release its report into the killing of the Brazilian at Stockwell Tube station on July 22 last year until after the Metropolitan Police is tried for health and safety breaches surrounding his death. (South London Press, 25 Jul 2006)
No officers will face charges over Menezes killing
No police officer will be tried over the Stockwell shooting, but Scotland Yard is expected to face charges under health and safety laws. (Times, 15 Jul 2006)
Met chief faces new criticism on De Menezes
The official report into the police killing of an innocent man who was mistaken for a terrorist will criticise Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, for his attempt to stop an independent inquiry, saying that it allowed officers to tamper with evidence, the Guardian has learned. (Guardian, 12 Jun 2006)
Police persecuted me, says De Menezes whistleblower
The whistleblower who leaked information about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes to a television journalist has described how she was treated as “the worst kind of criminal” by police. (Times, 8 Jun 2006)
Police cleared of Tube shooting blunder
Not a single police officer is to be prosecuted over the shooting dead of an innocent Brazilian who was mistaken for a suicide bomber, it can be revealed. (Mail, 7 Jun 2006)
Blair may face death rap
Britain's top policeman could face charges over the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, it emerged yesterday.
The Crown Prosecution Service will decide in the next few weeks whether to bring Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair, left, before the courts. (Mirror, 4 Jun 2006)
Blair's 'regrets' over Stockwell shooting
Tony Blair yesterday offered his "deepest regrets" to the family of Jean Charles de Menezes after discussing his fatal shooting by British police with the president of Brazil. (Telegraph, 10 Mar 2006)
Senior officers: we knew wrong man was shot
An official inquiry into the Stockwell tube station shooting has received evidence from senior police officers raising questions about Sir Ian Blair's account of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes and its aftermath, the Guardian has learned. (Guardian, 9 Mar 2006)
Police tampered with log on dead Brazilian 'suspect'
Undercover detectives altered a surveillance log to avoid blame for the death of Jean Charles de Menezes in a bungled counter-terrorist operation, according to police watchdogs. (Times, 2 Feb 2006)
ITN journalist arrested over leak from Stockwell shooting inquiry
A television journalist who revealed police blunders leading up to the shooting dead of Jean Charles de Menezes, has been arrested on suspicion of theft by detectives investigating the leaking of statements from the official inquiry to the broadcaster, the Guardian has learned. (Guardian, 25 Jan 2006)
Met chief 'was not kept in dark' over de Menezes
The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police denied yesterday that he was “kept in the dark” about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes in a counter-terrorist operation. (Times, 23 Dec 2005)
Police 'may be charged over tube shooting'
The fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes by anti-terror officers may lead to criminal charges, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has said. (Telegraph, 9 Dec 2005)
Insensitivity
Having seen the portrait added to the memorial ("Portrait of cop shooting victim is painted over, South London Press, November 25), I was deeply disappointed at the council action without any proper consultation, even with the artist responsible. (South London Press Letters, 2 Dec 2005)
De Menezes tube tribute
A plaque commemorating Jean Charles de Menezes is likely to be put up in the Tube station where he died. (South London Press, 29 Nov 2005)
It's war on the memorial to De Menezes
It was the neighbourhood watch coordinator in the Stockwell Park conservation area who first drew attention to the problem. A picture of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician shot and and killed at Stockwell underground station on July 22, had been added to the Stockwell memorial garden mural, and it had not been properly authorised..
..."I have been asked by local residents for action to be taken regarding the graffiti desecration of the Stockwell war memorial," wrote David Tomlinson in an email addressed to Dominic Busby, the Stockwell community safety officer. (Guardian, 28 Nov 2005)
Portrait of cop shooting victim is painted over
Part of a mural commemorating the man mistakenly shot dead by police on the Tube has been painted over after complaints.
The tribute to Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, killed on a train at Stockwell by an undercover policeman on July 22, was covered up by an anti-graffiti team from Lambeth council.
...Was the council right to paint over the mural portrait? Write to South London Press, 2-4 Leigham Court Road, Streatham, SW16 2PD or email letters@slp.co.uk. (South London Press, 25 Nov 2005)
Moving Memorial
Ninety three days after the Stockwell shooting and the De Menezes memorial is on the move. Not too far, about 20 yards to the other side of the tube station entrance. But it's shifted all the same. Something to do with planned building work next to the fruit and veg stall where the shrine first sprung up back in those crazy days of July. (Onionbag Blog, 24 Oct 2005)
The police are listening at last. But they won't like what we say
"The swine are using dum-dums!" In what thriller of my youth did I first read that cry of outrage - one of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond yarns, or a John Buchan adventure of Richard Hannay? Or does it date back even earlier, perhaps to a Kipling tale of the North-West Frontier, to the time when the hollow-nosed bullet had just been banned by the Hague Convention of 1899?
Certainly Jean Charles de Menezes is past caring that he seems to have been the first man to be shot by British police with a dum-dum bullet. For Jean Charles is dead. People generally are when the dum-dum expands and splinters on impact with its devastating effect - instead of passing cleanly through the body as an ordinary full metal jacket shell may. (Telegraph, 17 Nov 2005)
Police used 'dum dum' bullets to kill de Menezes
The Brazilian man shot dead by police in the mistaken belief that he was a suicide bomber was killed with a type of bullet banned in warfare under international convention, The Daily Telegraph has learned.
The firing of hollow point ammunition into the head of Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, is believed to be the first use of the bullets by British police. (Telegraph, 16 Nov 2005)
Order to kill was ‘never given’
Police chief denies using vital code word before London bomb suspect was shot.
...Scotland Yard sources say that Commander Cressida Dick, 44, the Oxford graduate who was “gold command” of the operation, maintains that she never gave the seven-letter word. (Times, 7 Nov 2005)
Menezes police could face trial
Police involved in the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on a London Tube train in July have been warned that they could face criminal charges, it emerged last night. (Times, 29 Sep 2005)
Shoot to kill is the safest option, says Met chief
Police in London remain under orders to shoot to kill suspected suicide bombers despite the death of an innocent man in July, Sir Ian Blair, the head of Scotland Yard, said yesterday.
...Sir Ian, the Metropolitan police commissioner, has been under pressure over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian national, on July 22, the day after four alleged suicide bombers sought to stage a second attack on the capital in two weeks. (Telegraph, 14 Sep 2005)
Menezes reports 'needed clarity'
Police should have clarified misleading reports about the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority has said. (BBC, 20 Aug 2005)
Timeline: the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Leaked documents from the official inquiry have shed new light on how Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by plain clothes officers at Stockwell Tube station in South London. (Times, 17 Aug 2005)
Shot Brazilian 'did not jump barrier and run'
The Brazilian electrician shot dead by police on the London Underground last month was being restrained when he was killed by officers from Scotland Yard's firearms unit, according to documents leaked last night. (Telegraph, 17 Aug 2005)
Brazilian's visa expired in 2003
The visa of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes expired two years before he was shot by police, the Home Office says. (BBC, 28 Jul 2005)
Shot man not connected to bombing
A man shot dead by police hunting the bombers behind Thursday's London attacks was unconnected to the incidents, police have confirmed.
The man, who died at Stockwell Tube on Friday, has been named by police as Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, 27. (BBC, 23 Jul 2005)
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