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De Menezes - judge tells jury what it must find

SickBoy | 02.12.2008 16:27 | Repression

the judge has decided on the verdict in the De Menezes case

The Judge at the inquest into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes has decided that the jury cannot return a verdict of 'unlawful killing', even if they think that is most likely what happened.

 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081202/tuk-menezes-unlawful-killing-verdict-rul-dba1618.html

Once again the state has procribed its own version of events to fit into its 'all cops are heroes' take on anything the police do.
The whole point of a jury is that members of the public can make up their minds on contentious issues which should not be left to a judge or anyone else who may be thought to be biased.

I have not seen one report on mainline news media which does not state that

'the innocent Brazilian was gunned down on a south London Tube train when mistaken for a suicide bomber'

ie the media accept and report this before anything else is mentioned, otherwise they may have to accept that there may be trigger-happy or even murderous cops running about the streets.

A sad day for anyone who might have believed in justice in the UK.

My deep apologies to the family, my thoughts are with you.

SickBoy

Comments

Display the following 13 comments

  1. Biggest Injustice of the century — Blair Peach
  2. No surprise — Winston Smith
  3. I really hope — Mike
  4. British Justice AGAIN shows its true face — George Coombs
  5. disgrace — Keith
  6. Embarrassed to be British — anon
  7. To be fair to the judge — Thomas Pride
  8. The real facts — A N Other
  9. So then... — Glumone
  10. What a farce! — phatts
  11. Open verdict? — Stroppyoldgit
  12. The rank and pestilent odour of Freemasons. — Jolly Roger
  13. police state AGAIN AGAIN and AGAIN — anon otherwise they shoot me