Jean Charles de Menezes: still no justice two years on
Gaynor Kuye | 30.07.2007 13:24 | Repression | Social Struggles | Birmingham | London
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Andy Hayman, the overall head of counter-terrorism and intelligence, and Alan Brown, the operational commander on the day of the shooting, are criticised in a report by the police watchdog.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to publish its findings into the behaviour of Sir Ian Blair, the Met commissioner, and other senior officers over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Underground station in July 2005. The 27-year-old electrician was shot by police marksmen after being mistaken for a fugitive suicide bomber.
The IPCC was asked by the de Menezes family to examine claims that Blair and other senior officers misled the public about what they knew about the shooting and when.
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