De Menezes 'only carrying a mobile'

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But the policeman, identified by the code name Ivor, insisted he could not rule out the Brazilian being a suicide bomber intent on detonating his device on London's Tube system.

Ivor was the closest surveillance officer behind the 27-year-old electrician as he boarded a train at Stockwell Underground station in south London, the inquest into his death has heard.

Michael Mansfield QC, counsel for the Menezes family, asked him: "From what you saw, there was nothing up to that point to suggest that he was a suicide bomber about to detonate a bomb, was there?"

Ivor replied: "I couldn't rule it out, sir, given what I saw, but effectively all I saw him carrying openly was a mobile phone and a newspaper on the train."

Mr de Menezes was shot seven times in the head at pointblank range on July 22, 2005 after being mistaken for failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman.

Ivor has told the inquest of the "shock wave" of gunfire as he pinned the Brazilian down in a train carriage at the Tube station.