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Thread #105969   Message #2189144
Posted By: Rog Peek
08-Nov-07 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Police guilty over Menezes
Subject: RE: BS: Police guilty over Menezes
Independant Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) Report

I have not read the report, but these are a couple of issues raised in the BBC News report:

....it says Commissioner Sir Ian Blair tried to prevent its investigation.

17 witnesses (apparently ALL of the passengers in the carriage where Mr. De Menezes was shot) said they had not heard officers shout a clear warning before opening fire.

It also says police radios deployed on the day did not work underground, a problem that was first identified in the 1987 King's Cross fire.

Mr Hardwick (who chaired the commission's investigation)said the IPCC's investigators believed that Sir Ian Blair played a key role in delaying their work.

Part of an interview with an eye witness to the shooting.

Rog