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Stockwell ‘missing’ video recordings

23rd August 2005 by Simon

The confusion continues around the shooting of the innocent Brazilian man, Jean Charles de Menezes, in the London underground.

I’d heard about a week after the shooting that the information the police had initially given out about the event (he was try to escape, bulky jacket, etc) wasn’t correct. As we now know, the initial information was incorrect.

I heard a brief item on the news over the last weekend that the police had recently been saying that the CCTV recordings of the shooting at Stockwell underground station weren’t available.

The reasoning? The disks used to store the CCTV recordings had been removed by the police the day before to examine to footage, looking for clues into the previous days attempted bombings.

Anyone who knows anything about computers and/or security knows that this is so unlikely as to be impossible.

When you’re recording CCTV, especially when there is a high security alert, you don’t ‘remove the disks’. You take a copy of the disks that have the recordings, or you add extra storage to continue capturing.

Either some of the police are being very bent about this, or they’ve been handling impossibly badly. Either way, their coming out of this in a very bad light.

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