Jean Charles de Menezes ruling challenged
12 April 2012
THE decision not to prosecute police marksmen for the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes on the Tube is to be challenged in the European Court of Human Rights. Lawyers representing the family of the 27-year-old claim that authorities were obliged under the European Convention of Human Rights to prosecute the officers.
The electrician was shot dead on July 22 2005 at Stockwell station by police who believed he was a suicide bomber. An inquest jury returned an open verdict on the death in 2008, but relatives criticised coroner Sir Michael Wright for failing to offer the option of an unlawful killing verdict.
