{"id":802,"date":"2006-04-23T05:30:17","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=802"},"modified":"2009-03-29T05:32:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T10:32:56","slug":"menezes-killers-not-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2006\/04\/23\/menezes-killers-not-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Menezes killers not charged?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nOr so The Sun alleges<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

\n\"Menezes<\/p>\n

\nTHE police officers who shot dead innocent suicide bomb suspect Jean Charles de Menezes at a Tube station last year will not face charges, according to a tabloid newspaper.\n<\/p>\n

\nThere is insufficient evidence of criminal offences in the shooting of the 27-year-old Brazilian at Stockwell Station, in south London, on July 22, according to a lawyer reviewing the case for the Crown Prosecution Service.\n<\/p>\n

\nMr De Menezes was shot in the head seven times by officers who mistook him for a suicide bomber in the wake of last July’s London bombings.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe lawyer quoted in The Sun said: “Mistakes were made but they do not amount to criminal misconduct.\n<\/p>\n

\n“The firearms officers were acting under orders. Those in charge of surveillance believed he was a suspect.\n<\/p>\n

\n“There is no realistic prospect that they will be prosecuted.”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIn other news, it seems that Brian Paddick a Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner is being kicked off the force, for the crime of testifying against Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police commissioner:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nFriends of Paddick said he had been offered the option of going on “gardening leave” for the next six months. This would last until November, when he has the option of retiring with a full police pension after 30 years\u2019 service.\n<\/p>\n

\nIf agreed, the deal would mean Paddick spending half a year being paid \u00a352,000 — half his estimated \u00a3104,000 annual salary — for doing nothing.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Met has offered Paddick the alternative of taking a posting involving a “less visible position” that would mean him rarely visiting Scotland Yard. Colleagues say Paddick, who was on holiday last week, is now considering his options.\n<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

\nEarlier this year Paddick gave investigators from the Independent Police Complaints Commission a signed statement that appeared to contradict Blair\u2019s account of the aftermath of the shooting.\n<\/p>\n

\nPaddick testified that Moir Stewart, a key member of Blair\u2019s private office, had been told just six hours after the shooting that police might have killed an innocent man.\n<\/p>\n

\nBlair has maintained that the first he and his advisers knew of the error was 24 hours after the shooting.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIt seems the coverup is in full effect. And it seems nobody is paying attention anymore, as I haven’t seen either story mention on the usual blogs. Will the Metropolitan Police really get away with another murder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or so The Sun alleges: THE police officers who shot dead innocent suicide bomb suspect Jean Charles de Menezes at a Tube station last year will not face charges, according to a tabloid newspaper. There is insufficient evidence of criminal offences in the shooting of the 27-year-old Brazilian at Stockwell Station, in south London, on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,132],"tags":[485,316,2448,62,486],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean-charles-de-menezes","category-policing","tag-brian-paddick","tag-ian-blair","tag-jean-charles-de-menezes","tag-metropolitian-police","tag-moir-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}