Top UK police officer could be charged over Brazilian’s death

[Judi Lynn]

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Top UK police officer could be charged over Brazilian’s death

LONDON: A senior British police officer could be charged with manslaughter over the killing of an innocent Brazilian man who police shot after mistaking him for a suicide bomber, a report said late Friday.

Commander Cressida Dick, who oversaw the operation in which Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead at a south London subway station on July 22, has been told criminal charges are a possibility, the Daily Mail newspaper said.

Citing unnamed legal sources, the paper said the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which is investigating the incident, believed there was enough evidence to charge Dick. Dick, 44, has previously been seen as a rising star in London’s Metropolitan Police and had been tipped to one day become its first female chief.

According to the Daily Mail’s Saturday edition, prosecutors will bring charges against Dick and possibly other senior officers if there is proof of a “direct link” between their actions and the death of De Menezes. The 27-year-old Brazilian electrician was shot seven times in the head at the subway station by anti-terrorism police.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-10-2005_pg4_5

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Sat 8 Oct 2005

The official investigation into the fatal shooting of a Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber could result in criminal charges for a senior female officer.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has been examining the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, killed at Stockwell Tube station on July 22. If its report provides the necessary evidence there may prosecutions for manslaughter.

Oxford graduate Commander Cressida Dick could be charged once the document is completed, reported the Daily Mail.

Commander Dick, 44, is believed to have been either Gold Command - in charge of the operation - or the designated senior officer responsible for the firearms unit, when Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot.
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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2061092005



Cressida Dick
http://www.bawp.org/New/Documents/AWCressidaDick.htm

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. How much hard time will he get???

A brazillion years???

So sue me! I could not resist.

;)

[Kagemusha]

3. It's not presented well but, they mean a woman.

They don't mean Ian Blair, metro London police chief.

[Cha]

9. dick is female.

Go figure.

[Taxloss]

2. I get the impression that Dick is a bit of a patsy in this

and that the real dick is Ian Blair. But the investigation continues.

[Kagemusha]

4. No patsy should be in a literally life and death position.

So in the event you're right (I won't assume that about a woman just for fairness' sake) someone else's butt belongs on the fire for putting her there. But we'll see. Frankly, I'm sure that's what they mean by "direct link" above.

[Taxloss]

7. Well, that would mean the culpability of Ian Blair.

The man who SHOULD bear responsibility for this.

Cressida Dick has reportedly already been driven to the point of nervous breakdown by the investigation around this - and she has not personally been targeted by the media beyond being mentioned as part of the investigation. That fact to me indicates that she should not have been put in such a sensitive position. I personally feel rather sorry for Dick.

[IndianaGreen]

5. Blame the woman rather than the police chief who gave shoot-to-kill orders

Now, that is the sort of crap one can expect from America, not from the UK.

[ret5hd]

6. or the officers that put what, 9 shots into him? refresh my memory.

[WinkyDink]

11. You must mean the pre-Thatcher U.K.

Because since and including then, the U.K. has been Right-wing.

[alarcojon]

12. I agree

the pers§n who put the policy into place, and the goons who actually shot Menezes, should be first in line.

[Evergreen Emerald]

8. Just one officer in charge of a Brazilian deaths?

shouldn't there be at least two per cotillion?

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. That would be a first, and no mistake!

In France, a minister who allowed blood, at least some of which he knew to be infected with HIV, was imprisoned for a number of years.

In Britain, he would have been promoted.