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Verdict in Menezes case

LONDON: Scotland Yard officers who shot dead an innocent Brazilian youth, Jean Charles de Menezes, at a London Underground station in the aftermath of the July 7, 2005, bombings — claiming that they thought he was a terrorist — were on Friday absolved of unlawful killing, but their claim that they had acted lawfully was also rejected. The jury at the inquest into Menezes’ death returned an open verdict and sharply questioned many of the key aspects of the police version, especially the claim that the police officers gave warning before shooting him.

Two officers shot Menezes, a 27-year-old electrician, seven times from close range as he sat in a train at Stockwell tube station on July 22, 2005. Menezes’ family reacted with outrage and accused the Coroner, Sir Michael Wright, of presiding over a “complete whitewash.”

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