Who was Jean Charles De Menezes? Man mistaken for suicide bomber and fatally shot at Stockwell tube station

A elder firearms serviceman progressive successful the shooting of a antheral mistakenly suspected of being a violent 19 years agone volition publically stock his communicative for the archetypal clip successful an upcoming Channel 4 documentary.

Jean Charles de Menezes was wrongly suspected of being a violent aft the 7 July bombings. Here’s what we cognize astir him.

Who was Jean Charles De Menezes?

Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes, a Brazilian man, was killed by officers of the Metropolitan Police Service astatine Stockwell presumption connected the London Underground.

The 27-year-old was mistakenly identified arsenic a fugitive progressive successful the failed bombing attempts of the erstwhile day.

This incidental occurred conscionable 2 weeks aft the July 7, 2005 London bombings, which claimed 52 lives.

Born January 7, 1978, helium had grown up connected a workplace successful Gonzaga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 

At 14, helium near the workplace to unrecorded with his uncle successful São Paulo, pursuing his endowment for electronics. 

He arrived successful Britain connected 13 March 2002 with a six-month visitant visa. 

After it expired, helium applied for a pupil visa and received support to enactment until June 30, 2003.

What happened to Jean Charles De Menezes?

On July 22, 2005, the Metropolitan Police were successful pursuit of 4 suspects progressive successful attempted bombings the erstwhile day, targeting 3 Underground stations and a autobus successful Haggerston. 

When these attempts failed, the suspects survived, prompting an aggravated constabulary investigation and a city-wide manhunt. 

During the search, constabulary recovered an code connected Scotia Road, Tulse Hill, connected a gym rank paper recovered from 1 of the unexploded bags utilized by the bombers.

Mr de Menezes lived successful a level astatine this code with 2 of his cousins. 

That morning, astir 9:30 a.m., helium near his gathering to respond to a telephone for a occurrence alarm repair successful Kilburn. 

Surveillance officers stationed extracurricular saw Mr de Menezes exit the communal entrance.

One of the officers, aboriginal identified arsenic "Frank" successful an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report, noted a resemblance betwixt Mr de Menezes and CCTV images of the erstwhile day’s bombing suspects. 

Due to an alleged momentary absence, Frank was incapable to seizure an contiguous representation to relay to Gold Command, the Metropolitan Police’s large incidents centre. 

Testimony aboriginal revealed that Frank was a worker temporarily seconded to the undercover surveillance unit.

Acting connected Frank's suspicion, Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police’s Gold Commander astatine the time, authorised officers to proceed pursuing Mr de Menezes and instructed them to forestall him from entering the Tube system.

Tragically, Mr de Menezes was followed into Stockwell Underground presumption and fatally changeable 7 times successful the caput and erstwhile successful the enarthrosis by 2 constabulary marksmen who mistook him for a termination bomber.

Scotland Yard confirmed Mr de Menezes was not connected to the attacks the time aft his death.

An autarkic probe aboriginal recovered that missteps successful the surveillance process led to captious recognition failures, resulting successful rushed decisions that tragically culminated successful Mr de Menezes's decease astatine Stockwell station.

In 2006, the Crown Prosecution Service ruled that nary constabulary officers would look prosecution implicit the sidesplitting of Mr. de Menezes. 

However, the Metropolitan Police was recovered blameworthy of endangering the nationalist and fined £175,000, with an further £385,000 successful costs.

In a associated connection with the family, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner issued "a further unreserved apology to the household for the tragic decease of Jean Charles de Menezes". 

The Met Police besides emphasised "that helium was a wholly guiltless unfortunate and successful nary mode to blasted for his untimely death”.

How to ticker Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube

The constabulary marksman is expected to interruption his long-held anonymity to look connected Channel 4's Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube. 

Alisa Pomeroy, Channel 4’s caput of documentaries, expressed anticipation that his idiosyncratic grounds would “help the British nationalist understand... what became 1 of the biggest crises successful British policing history."

Pomeroy added that the interrogation would besides springiness viewers penetration into “the complexity of the ambiance successful London that summer.”

The documentary volition research the marksman’s “understanding of the relation of the constabulary arsenic ‘goodies vs baddies’”.

It volition besides research “the unit of being astatine the centre of 1 of the astir arguable moments successful the past of British policing.”

Shoot To Kill: Terror On The Tube airs implicit 2 nights from November 10 connected Channel 4.