Menezes memorial for Tube station

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A permanent memorial to Jean Charles de Menezes will be placed at the south London Tube station where he was shot dead by police.

Transport for London has given the go-ahead for a mosaic of the 27-year-old Brazilian at Stockwell station.

The mosaic will replace an improvised pavement shrine of flowers, candles, pictures and newspaper articles.

Mr de Menezes was shot seven times by counter-terrorist officers on a Tube train at the station, on 22 July 2005.

The officers were hunting for would-be suicide bomber Hussain Osman on the day after the failed 21 July attacks.

Last year coroner Sir Michael Wright recorded an open verdict at the end of a multimillion-pound inquest, after a jury rejected the police account of the shooting.

'Memory kept alive'

The family of Mr de Menezes accepted a six-figure compensation deal from the Metropolitan Police last month.

His cousin Vivian Figueiredo said she was pleased at the decision to develop the mural, designed by local artist Mary Edwards, next year.

She said: "The pain of never achieving justice for Jean's killing continues to haunt us every day.

"But knowing his memory will be kept alive in the local community through this memorial is a tribute we could not have dreamed of."