25 h. ago Fatal error: 20 years on, the Met still has questions to answer about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. A new drama investigates the tragedy

The award-winning producer and screenwriter of Philomena’s new show, Suspect, is about the shooting of an innocent young Brazilian electrician on the London Underground in the wake of the 7/7 bombings. Here he asks why the force still can’t admit that it acted incompetently‘Everybody’s human. Mistakes can be made But you are really not prepared to say that any mistake [was made] here, are you?”Michael Mansfield QC put this question to Cressida Dick – then deputy assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police – at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a young man who, 20 years ago this summer, was shot dead at Stockwell station in south London by Met firearms officers. The inquest took place in 2008, three years after his shooting on the morning of 22 July 2005, which was 15 days after the 7/7 bombings in London and one day after copycat bombers had tried and failed to detonate more explosives on the transport system and then fled. De Menezes was a 27-year-old Bra...

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66 h. ago Ed Sheeran surprises fans with gigs from a London bus and outside King's Cross station

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4 d. ago Busy London station to shut for 10 months to allow broken escalators to be replaced

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4 d. ago The best padel tennis clubs in London, from Stratford to Battersea

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4 d. ago Millionaire businesswoman left abandoned on Tube platform by TfL staff after 'traumatising' attack

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4 d. ago Millionaire businesswoman abandoned on Tube platform for 30 minutes by TfL staff after 'traumatising' attack

Sally Wynter has called for urgent safety review after no one came to her aid when she hit emergency button at busy central London station

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4 d. ago Busy London train station to shut for 10 months to allow escalators to be replaced

Cutty Sark DLR will close on May 31 but reopen before 2026 London Marathon

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1 week ago Lathaniel Burrell: Two charged after boy, 16, shot dead in Stockwell

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1 week ago Lathaniel Burrell: Two further suspects arrested after fatal shooting of boy, 16, in Stockwell

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