2 w. 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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3 w. ago Police offer £10,000 reward in bid to solve case of boy missing from north London since 2008

Huge reward offered in effort to solve mystery surrounding disappearance of Alexander Sloley who went missing 17 years ago aged 16

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3 w. ago Police offer £10,000 reward for information about Alexander Sloley who vanished in 2008

Police offer £10,000 reward for information about Alexander Sloley who vanished in 2008  Express

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3 w. ago Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who disappeared in London in 2008

Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who disappeared in London in 2008  The Guardian

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3 w. ago Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who went missing days before his 17th birthday in 2008

Alexander Sloley, from Islington, north London, was 16 when he disappeared in August 2008 and has had no contact with his family since then.

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3 w. ago Police offer £10,000 reward for information about boy missing since 2008

People quizzed previously in connection with Alex Sloley’s disappearance were re-interviewed in 2019.

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