De Menezes family Police 'have got away with murder'

CHARLOTTE GILL
UK Daily Mail
Saturday May 12, 2007

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes reacted with fury as it was announced eleven officers involved in his death will not face disciplinary action.

They said they were "gravely disappointed" that the Independent Police Complaints Commission had exonerated them and accused the Metropolitan police of "getting away with murder".

The IPCC said just one surveillance officer out of the eleven will be given "management advice" over action he took after the shooting.

The cleared officers include the two from Scotland Yard's elite firearms unit CO19 who shot the young Brazilian seven times in the head at Stockwell tube station after he was mistaken for a suicide bomber.

The fate of police chief Cressida Dick, who authorised the shoot-to-kill policy, and three other senior officers is yet to be decided.

Mr de Menezes' family believe criminal charges for manslaughter through gross negligence can still be brought against the four senior officers and said yesterday's announcement could prejudice the case.

A spokeswoman said:

"We can see no advantage in making this early announcement, other than to provide relief to the officers facing potential disciplinary charges.

"Whilst the officers are spared that ongoing anxiety, the family are given no relief to their own agony, grief and anxiety caused by their lack of access to all the evidence surrounding the shooting of their loved one.

"We hope ultimately that all the officers about whom evidence emerges of wrongdoing that led to this wrongful death are ultimately rendered fully accountable."

The innocent 27-year-old electrician was killed a day after failed London bombings on July 21 2005.

His death came in the wake of the 7/7 bombings in London in which 52 people were murdered and nearly 1,000 injured.

Police believed that Mr Menezes was Ethiopian Hussain Osman, one of the alleged July 21 bombers currently on trial, and followed him from his flat in South West London to the station.

He was killed as he boarded a train.

Note: Menezes was shot dead in the aftermath of the London 7/7 bombings which, according to the official account, was carried out by three Muslim suicide bombers. Unfortunately, there were too many things with 7/7 that, like the official account of 9/11, simply did up.

The 7/7 London Bombings: How to Set Up a Patsy

7/7 London Bombings Final Word: Her Majesty's Terrorist Network

The London Metropolitan Police's response to the unfortunate shooting of an innocent man bore all the hallmarks of a cover-up.

The article below, by Gavin Gatenby, of the Possum News Network,makes a lot more sense of what was really behind the shooting.

Taking down the wrong man at Stockwell tube
Was the “armed team” ordered to kill Hussain Osman because he knew too much?