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A pathologist was misled by police into believing Jean Charles de Menezes "vaulted" over a ticket barrier before he was shot dead, an inquest has heard.
Dr Kenneth Shorrock, who carried out post-mortem examinations after Mr de Menezes was killed, wrongly recorded in his notes that the Brazilian jumped over a barrier before "stumbling" down an escalator in the moments before officers opened fire.
He said he was given the false information during a "walk-through" with officers at Stockwell Tube station, south London, in the hours after the shooting.
When asked why there were "significant errors" in his initial report, he replied: "This was what was told to me. What happened at that time was that there were a lot of officers present and we were taken through.
"I did not write anything down. I did not make any note of who told me what - but, at the next opportunity that I had, I got my Dictaphone."
He told a jury at the Oval cricket ground, south London, that "it was a long day" but rejected suggestions he was influenced by media reports, insisting he had made the notes before he had seen any news items.
Police marksmen shot Mr de Menezes seven times in the head at point-blank range on a train carriage on July 22 2005.
He had been mistaken for one of the terrorists behind the previous day's failed suicide attacks on the capital.
Dr Shorrock was speaking before Retired Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick was due to take to the witness box.
Mr Paddick, who unsuccessfully ran for election as the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor in May, questioned Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair's account of when he learned his officers had killed an innocent man.
