De Menezes Trial UK Media Coverage A Disgrace : Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

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De Menezes Trial UK Media Coverage A Disgrace

26th October 2007 by Simon

The coverage of the court case against the London police for executing the innocent Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, on a London tube train as been pitiful and shameful in the UK press.

From what I’ve seen, they have covered it, but the reports have been very brief and stuck deep in the papers. Other less relevant news stories dominate and distract the public.

The police have already got away scot-free, and are now having to be accused of a Health & Safety violation in an attempt to try and get some justice.

Some disgraceful details have come out like the fact that police manipulated the photo of de Menezes, so he looked more like Hussain Osman, the persons who they claim they were following.

Yes - this is the Police tampering with evidence.

The judge, Mr Justice Henriques, told the jury that a “serious allegation has been made that a picture has been manipulated so as to mislead”.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, it’s come out - quietly - that the police used hollow-tipped bullets (dum dum bullets) in their execution - strange because they illegal to use in warfare.

The court hear that they use the bullets to “immediately incapacitate” the victim and flatten, rather than pass through the other side of a body. Quite why seven were needed when he was supposed to have been lying face down on the tube carriage hasn’t come out.

The senior firearms advisor, was gave evidence anonymously in court stressed that officers were trained to fire “as a last resort, when conventional methods have failed”. Again why seven rounds into the back of the head hasn’t come out.

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