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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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The Jean Charles de Menezes case

Gallery de menezes: Jean Charles de Menezes, shot by armed police officers in July 2005
Jean Charles de Menezes Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA
Jean-Charles de Menezes shooting
July 22 2005: Police seen through the window of a bus at Stockwell underground station after De Menezes was shot dead Photograph: Martin Godwin/Freelance
Jean-Charles de Menezes shooting
July 24 2005: Scotia Road in south London, where De Menezes lived Photograph: Linda Nylind/Freelance
Jean-Charles de Menezes shooting
July 28 2005: De Menezes's coffin, covered with a Brazilian flag, is unloaded from a truck at a church in Gonzaga, Brazil Photograph: Antonio Scorza/AFP
Jean-Charles de Menezes shooting
August 26 2005: Tribute artwork near Stockwell station Photograph: David Levene/Freelance
Jean-Charles de Menezes shooting
August 1 2005: John Yates, the deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police (left), and the British ambassador to Brazil, Peter Collecott, address a press conference in Gonzaga, Brazil. They offered their condolences to the De Menezes family for the mistaken shooting Photograph: Press Association
Andy Hayman
September 28 2005: Andy Hayman, the Scotland Yard assistant commissioner in charge of special operations Photograph: Linda Nylind/Freelance
Jean-Charles de Menezes shooting
August 2 2007: The shrine to Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell tube station Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Freelance
Gallery de menezes: The shrine to Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell Tube station
August 2 2007: The shrine to Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell tube station Photograph: Graeme Robertson
Jean-Charles de Menezes shooting
October 1 2007: Vivian Figueiredo (centre) and Alessandro Pereira, cousins of Jean Charles de Menezes, arrive at the Old Bailey on the first day of the Met police trial Photograph: Akira Suemori/AP
Jean-Charles de Menezes shooting
A composite image comparing the terrorist suspect Hussain Osman (left) and Jean Charles de Menezes. It was claimed during the trial that the image had been dishonestly manipulated to make the two faces look more alike Photograph: CPS handout/PA
Jean-Charles de Menezes shooting
October 19 2007: The Met police deputy assistant commissioner, Cressida Dick, who was in charge of the operation. In evidence given during the trial, she denied giving the order to shoot De Menezes Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/PA
Gallery de menezes: Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair makes a statement
November 1 2007: The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, makes a statement after the force was found guilty of health and safety charges in the shooting of De Menezes Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
Gallery de menezes:  Tributes to  Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell underground station
Tributes to Jean Charles de Menezes outside Stockwell underground station. Photograph: /Dan Chung
Gallery de menezes: The de Menezes  jury and  court officialsin Stockwell
September 23 2008: Members of the inquest jury, court officials and relatives of De Menezes are shown his last movements before he was shot dead at Stockwell underground station Photograph: Johnny Green/PA
Gallery de menezes:  CCTV footage of Jean Charles de Menezes on the number 2 bus
CCTV footage of De Menezes (JC) on board the number 2 bus near Stockwell tube station before he was shot Photograph: CPS/PA
Gallery de menezes:  Jean Charles de Menezes followed by Police in Stockwell  station
CCTV footage of the last moments of De Menezes (JC) as he is pursued by a surveillance officer (codenamed Ivor) at Stockwell tube station Photograph: CPS/PA
Gallery de menezes: The body
The scene on board the tube train after the shooting Photograph: ITV
Gallery de menezes: Maria Otone de Menezes the mother of Jean Charles de Menezes
October 25 2008: Maria Otone de Menezes, the mother of Jean Charles, attends the United Friends and Families Campaign remembrance procession in central London Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA
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