Remember the young Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, shot eight times in the head on a London tube while in police custody last month?

And all that stuff about how he'd brought it on himself by wearing a heavy jacket on a hot day and running away from a police challenge and jumping over a ticket barrier? An account and a rationalisation that was accepted at face value by a fair number of people on Mudcat (BS: Murder of the directly linked terrorist Fair enough, I suppose - after all, this was the account given by the police in press conferences and in the initial offical report to the coroner.

It now turns out that this was all total ruibbish. "CCTV footage and eyewitness accounts cited by ITV News show that the Brazilian was not wearing a padded jacket and walked calmly through the underground station barriers." See report today.

Jean Charles big mistake was to live in a block of flats (apartment building) where one of the other eight flats was under surveillance because it was believed that it was being used by a suspected would-be bomber, and to go to work that day by public transport. And to look foreign enough to be mistaken for one of the suspected bombers.

In all this one of the people I am most sorry for is the poor police officer who was so badly misinformed by his colleagues and superiors, and effectively compelled to execute a totally innocent man who was being held down on the ground with his hands grappled to his side.

Mistakes happen. But if the latest reports are true, I hope that the people who appear to have tried to misinform the public about this, in what seems to have been a callous and cold-blooded attempt to conceal the facts about this killing, will be identified and appropriately dealt with. And if that includes senior officers or politicians, "appropriately" would have to meant the end of their careers. (But of course it won't. If it comes to that, some poor sod much lower down will be selected to carry the can)