Family of Jean Charles de Menezes are set to receive a reduced compensation package from Scotland Yard because they are so poor, according to reports... more
The Tube train driver who fled in terror into the tunnel after police shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell station in July 2005 has been awarded £1,000 compensation... more
The Mayor has refused to apologise for calling police marksmen "trigger-happy" after the comments were revealed in an acrimonious exchange of letters with former Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair... more
Jean Charles de Menezes was still asleep in his Tulse Hill flat when police embarked on a catalogue of controversies which would end in his death.... more
The inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes turned up fresh revelations about a month that changed the course of modern British history... more
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes walked out of the inquest into his death in protest over the coroner's decision that the jury cannot return a verdict of unlawful killing... more
Jean Charles De Menezes was shot dead after pictures identifying the real terror suspect arrived too late because it was out of office hours, an inquest heard ... more
It was not so much an Obama Bounce as an Obama Flop in London today. City investors appeared completely underwhelmed by Barack Obama's historic Presidential victory in the US, with share prices showing big losses as trading got under way... more
The driver of the Tube train on which Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead fled in terror down a tunnel, believing he was under attack from "fanatics"... more
Firearms police were not deployed on transport networks in the wake of the 7 July bombings because officers were otherwise engaged, an anti-terror chief said... more
A senior detective claimed he “cannot recall” if officers discussed photographs which could have stopped police mistaking Jean Charles de Menezes for a failed suicide bomber... more
Officers involved in the pursuit of Jean Charles de Menezes today criticised “chaotic” scenes in the police control room on the day he was shot... more
The officer in charge of the operation which led to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes insisted that none of her team did anything wrong, his inquest heard... more
The police officer in charge of the operation to find the failed 21/7 bombers said a suspect boarding a Tube train should be stopped "at all costs"... more
Surveillance officers following Jean Charles de Menezes decided he was not a terror suspect then changed their minds minutes before he entered a Tube station, the inquest into his death heard... more
Met Commissioner Sir Ian Blair came under pressure over the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes after a report criticised the structure of Scotland Yard... more
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Could we soon see a Baroness Widdecombe of Battleaxe? I hear moves are afoot to secure veteran Conservative MP and darling of the Tory grassroots, Ann Widdecombe, a peerage following the general election
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