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The Independent Police Complaints Commission is due to report on how the Met Police acted after the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes. | |
The IPCC has examined statements issued by police after the 27-year-old was mistakenly shot dead by officers at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005. | |
He was mistaken for a suicide bomber in the wake of the 7 July London bombings and failed 21 July attacks. | |
His family says inaccurate information was given to the public by officers. | |
On 22 July 2005, a surveillance team had been monitoring a block of flats in Tulse Hill, south London, where Mr Menezes lived. | |
They believed a man wanted in connection with the previous day's attempted suicide bombings in London lived there. | |
When Mr Menezes emerged from the flats, he was wrongly identified as the suspect and was followed to Stockwell, where he was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder as he boarded a Tube train. | |
Minute detail | |
After the IPCC's Stockwell One report into the events surrounding the shooting, the Crown Prosecution Service decided last year that no individual would be prosecuted in connection with the case. | |
However, the Metropolitan Police is facing trial under health and safety legislation in October. | However, the Metropolitan Police is facing trial under health and safety legislation in October. |
Its Stockwell Two report relates to the complaints of inaccurate information given to the public. | |
The report will go into minute detail about who knew what and when in the hours following the fatal shooting. | |
The two-year investigation looked into claims that senior police officers were aware an innocent man had been killed earlier than was announced. | |
It also examined whether they failed to correct wrong information suggesting Mr Menezes acted suspiciously before his death. | |
The dead man's family have complained that inaccurate information was given to the public by officers including Commissioner Sir Ian Blair. | |
'Minor changes' | 'Minor changes' |
On Wednesday, it was reported that the inquiry had examined the role played by Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman - the UK's most senior counter terrorist-officer. | |
He has been accused of failing to tell the commissioner at the first opportunity of his suspicions that an innocent man had been killed. | |
It also emerged that the IPCC had made "minor changes" to the report after a legal challenge by officers who were criticised in it. | |
A spokesman for Justice4Jean, which is campaigning to find out what happened on the day of the shooting and its aftermath, said he hoped the report would answer key questions. | A spokesman for Justice4Jean, which is campaigning to find out what happened on the day of the shooting and its aftermath, said he hoped the report would answer key questions. |
"We hope the IPCC deliver a thorough investigation into the lies and misinformation put in the public domain by the police following Jean's killing and that those responsible are held accountable for their actions," he said. | "We hope the IPCC deliver a thorough investigation into the lies and misinformation put in the public domain by the police following Jean's killing and that those responsible are held accountable for their actions," he said. |