Thursday, November 01, 2007

De Menezes Killing. Met police Guilty

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Guilty of endangering the public that is.


London's Metropolitan police force has been found guilty of endangering the public over the shooting dead of a man officers mistook for a suicide bomber.

The force broke health and safety laws when officers pursued Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes to a Tube station and shot him seven times, a jury found.

It was fined £175,000 with £385,000 costs over the 22 July 2005 shooting.

The Old Bailey jury said police chief Cressida Dick, who led the operation, bore "no personal culpability".



Ms Dick, now deputy assistant commissioner of the force, had been accused by prosecutors of failing to keep control of her officers.more and video. Reaction from the family


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