New claims emerge over Menezes death

guardian: The young Brazilian shot dead by police on a London tube train in mistake for a suicide bomber had already been overpowered by a surveillance officer before he was killed, according to secret documents revealed last night.

It also emerged in the leaked documents that early allegations that he was running away from police at the time of the shooting were untrue and that he appeared unaware that he was being followed.

Relatives and the dead man's legal team expressed shock and outrage at the revelations. Scotland Yard has continued to justify a shoot-to-kill policy.

Jean Charles de Menezes died after being shot on a tube train at Stockwell station in south London on July 22, the morning after the failed bomb attacks in London.

But the evidence given to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) by police officers and eyewitnesses and leaked to ITV News shows that far from leaping a ticket barrier and fleeing from police, as was initially reported, he was filmed on CCTV calmly entering the station and picking up a free newspaper before boarding the train.

It has now emerged that Mr de Menezes:

was never properly identified because a police officer was relieving himself at the very moment he was leaving his home;

was unaware he was being followed;

was not wearing a heavy padded jacket or belt as reports at the time suggested;

never ran from the police;

and did not jump the ticket barrier.

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db: No police force is infallible. However when a mistake such as this costs a man his life and deprives a family of it's son, transparency and openness is the least we should expect. This story had a rat-like stench about it from the beginning.