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So who is Mark Whitby?

brian | 19.08.2005 06:21

this is the fellow who told the media that Menezes wore a thick coat....when in fact he was wearing a blue denim jacket

'WHAT IS KNOWN: Earlier statements that Mr de Menezes was wearing a padded winter coat at the height of summer, thereby arousing police suspicions, continued to be repeated for several days even though he was, in fact, wearing a denim jacket.

The original suggestion that he was wearing a heavy fleece seems to have come from a witness on the train, Mark Whitby, but the Met never corrected this.
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/18/nmenez118.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/18/ixnewstop.html


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Now why would the police depend on him, when they KNEW Menezes was wearing a denim jacket?

Whitby and the police should be cross -examined to see why they lied and allowed this lie to be in the press for days.

brian

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  1. Dan Copeland — Gazubal
  2. Cross examining who ? — Gazubal
  3. Transcript of Dan Copeland account — gazubal
  4. London Police Services? — Anyone?
  5. The man who was grabbed — gazubal
  6. Anyone? — magoo
  7. I suspect not a lie, but mistake. — Tigger