It’s time they were held to account
Posted by Andrew Adams on September 23, 2008
Filed Under Crime, Politics, Society |
Reading accounts of the start of the inquest into the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes I was struck by two remarks the coroner, Sir Michael Wright, made in his opening statement -
“Both officers said that they were convinced that Mr de Menezes was a suicide bomber, that he was about to detonate a bomb and unless he was prevented from doing so everybody present was going to die.”
“It does appear that by the time Mr de Menezes had entered Stockwell station, no member of the surveillance team had positively identified him.”
The incongruity of these statements is as good an indication as any of the level of incompetence and downright negligence of the police operation. I guess many of us have almost given up hope that those responsible might be forced to actually pay for the consequences of their actions, and the purpose of the inquest is not to apportion blame to individuals, but at least they will have to face Jean Charles’s family and be questioned by their legal team. I suspect it will look very very bad for them and they will richly deserve the opprobrium they will doubtless receive.
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