Police marksman who shot Jean Charles de Menezes to speak for first time

A elder firearms serviceman who changeable a antheral wrongly suspected of being a violent aft the 7/7 bombings volition talk publically for the archetypal clip successful a caller documentary.

The elder firearms serviceman who volition look successful Channel 4’s Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube has remained anonymous for astir 2 decades.

Alisa Pomeroy, caput of documentaries astatine Channel 4, said: “I anticipation that proceeding the idiosyncratic grounds of the firearms serviceman progressive successful the tragic shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes volition assistance the British nationalist recognize the complexity of the ambiance successful London that summer, and what was subsequently the events surrounding what became 1 of the biggest crises successful British policing history.”

Would-be termination bombers targeted the transport web again connected July 21, but their devices failed to explode.

The pursuing day, 27-year-old electrician Mr de Menezes was mistaken for 1 of them and changeable 7 times by 2 marksmen astatine Stockwell Tube station, southbound London.

On July 23, Scotland Yard confirmed Mr de Menezes was not connected to the July 21 attacks.

Dame Cressida Dick, who was promoted to Metropolitan Police commissioner successful 2017, led the cognition successful which Mr de Menezes died.

A assemblage cleared her of immoderate blasted successful his decease astatine the extremity of the prosecution of the Met nether wellness and information laws.

Sir Tony Blair, who was premier curate astatine the time, and Gesio de Avila, a adjacent person of Mr de Menezes, person contributed to the two-part documentary, with elder constabulary officers and civilian witnesses besides featuring.

The programme volition look astatine the marksman’s “understanding of the relation of the constabulary arsenic ‘goodies vs baddies’” and “the unit of being astatine the centre of 1 of the astir arguable moments successful the past of British policing.”

Dov Freedman, main enforcement and co-founder of accumulation institution Curious Films, which made the documentary, said: “The films seizure a precise circumstantial infinitesimal successful the summertime of 2005 erstwhile the UK was surviving nether the precise existent menace of terrorism, and aerial of immense uncertainty and hostility was precocious crossed the nation.

“The entree to the antecedently anonymous firearms serviceman is unparalleled, with his candid interrogation providing unsocial penetration astir that time.”

Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube volition aerial connected November 10 and 11 connected Channel 4.