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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chiara Giordano

Jean Charles de Menezes’ family say ‘Cressida Dick should have quit 16 years ago’ after he was wrongly killed

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The relative of an innocent Brazilian man killed by armed police on the London Underground more than 16 years ago has said Cressida Dick should have resigned then.

Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station in south London on 22 July 2005 after an officer mistook him for a suicide bomber in a counter-terrorism operation led by Dame Cressida, who was then assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

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