4 h. ago The true story behind the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes

The police shooting of the 27 year old Brazilian national is being made into a Disney+ series

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13 h. ago ‘The Met won’t be happy with it’: Jeff Pope on Suspect, his drama about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

The king of UK true-crime dramas tells Gabriel Tate about returning to a 20-year-old scandal, and what’s driven him to probe the psyche of everyone from Fred West to Jimmy Savile

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4 d. ago BBC's The One Show halted as Alex Jones issues important announcement

The stars of Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes were on the sofa this evening

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5 d. ago Disney+ Suspect release date, cast, trailer, plot: Everything you need to know

Disney+ is gearing up to release Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes, which stars the likes of Russell Tovey, Max Beesley and Laura Aikman.

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6 d. ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Mother of Jean Charles de Menezes says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama

Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by police in Stockwell underground station in July 2005.

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7 d. ago ‘We didn’t want to avoid the reality of what happened’: the drama telling the true story of Jean Charles de Menezes

The 2005 shooting of the Brazilian created national headlines, but the shocking truth of his death remains unknown by many. A new series aims to do justice to his story – and those who fought to clear his nameOn 22 July 2005, 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed by firearms officers on the London underground shortly after boarding a train. The information relayed by the Metropolitan police at the time was that he had leapt over the ticket barriers at Stockwell station and was wearing a bulky coat under which officers thought he was hiding a bomb.The incident occurred two weeks after the 7/7 bombings on London’s transport network, where 52 people were killed, and the day after a copycat attack in which four men tried – and mercifully failed – to detonate devices on three underground trains and a bus; the bombers in the latter incidents fled the scene, triggering a police manhunt. It later emerged that De Menezes was innocent and the intelligence on him was flawed. ...

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1 week ago MARK JEFFERIES: 'I watched Jean Charles de Menezes' mum burst into tears but he'd be proud'

Jean Charles de Menezes would be so proud of his mum who has spoken about a new Disney+ series almost two decades on after he was murdered

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1 week ago Jean Charles de Menezes' mum makes extraordinary gesture to cops who killed innocent son

A new drama about innocent Jean Charles de Menezes coming to Disney+ is bringing some 'relief' to his family 20 years after he was shot by police at a London tube station

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3 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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