When was jean charles de menezes shot

Too few officers are willing to carry a gun to tackle a Paris-style attack through concerns they will be treated as criminal suspects.

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Published: 3 Apr Jean Charles de Menezes: family lose fight for police officers to be prosecuted. Published: PM. Who was Jean Charles de Menezes? Published: AM. Jean Charles de Menezes ruling due in European court of human rights.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission too often failed to hold the police to account. Its successor needs the resources to do a proper job. Where the law stands on police shootings. Any review should be focused on the quality of the investigation. Published: 21 Dec Ms Kaufmann said: "This gave the impression that Jean Charles was not an entirely innocent victim, and appeared to mitigate the enormity of the police error. She said the family still had to correct people about these claims and were "distressed".

Later in March , the family's solicitor Harriet Wistrich was called by a detective warning her that a story about a rape allegation made against Mr de Menezes would appear in the Sunday Mirror.

Ms Wistrich believed the officer was implying the story was the result of a police leak, but the detective denied this. Ms Kaufmann said: "Miss da Silva cannot prove that the police deliberately put false information about Jean Charles into the public domain on these or other occasions, for example when it was reported that he was an illegal immigrant.

Ms Kaufmann went on: "For Miss Armani da Silva there is a chilling parallel between her experiences of misinformation being put into the public domain about Jean Charles, and the account that Peter Francis has publicly given of SDS officers being tasked with infiltrating justice campaigns in order to source information with which to discredit them.

Ms Kaufmann said this "has always been denied" by the Met. The incident came amid heightened tensions two weeks after the 7 July London bombings - in which four suicide bombers killed 52 people - and one day after attempted bombings on the London public transport network.

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Mr de Menezes's mother said her "pain is not over yet" and "my health has deteriorated". That memory has never left me.

I miss him so very much," she said, adding that "after such a long time, my heart still feels very empty". In Mr de Menezes's family took a case to the European Court of Human Rights as part of a final attempt to see someone prosecuted, but judges ruled against them.

Speaking about the case, Maria de Menezes said: "I don't think justice has been served - not at all. Asked if she could forgive those involved in the killing, she said: "I don't know yet. Because I am still in pain. And [the police officers] were very ill-prepared.