Ian Blair, Lord Blair of Boughton, who has died aged 72, was the Metropolitan police commissioner who not only faced unprecedented terrorist attacks on London during his tenure, but was the first for more than 100 years to be sacked by the politician to whom he was responsible, Boris Johnson as mayor of London, in 2008.
Casting a very dark shadow over his leadership was the handling of the shooting of the innocent Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes by police marksmen at Stockwell tube station in the wake of the 7/7 terrorist attacks five months into Blair’s appointment as commissioner in 2005.
