Reply #175: 'Offficers gagged us' claim family of de Menezes

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THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes claimed last night that Scotland Yard had tried to bully and gag them and that the police gave a misleading account to a pathologist about how the 27-year-old died.

Lawyers said that if these accusations were proved, more officers could face possible charges along with the police marksmen. Alex Alvez Pereira, a cousin of Mr de Menezes, demanded that the marksmen should face murder charges, along with those who gave the order to shoot.

A list of allegations made by the family amounts to what their lawyers claim was a deliberate “blanket of secrecy and a cover-up” by Scotland Yard.

The parents of Mr de Menezes have called for the police officers who were involved in the death of their son to be punished. “These police officers killed him and they have to be punished,” a sobbing Senhora Maria Otoni de Menezes s

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