Reply #2: Tube shooting charges 'possible'

[DoYouEverWonder]

9 December 2005

Officers involved in the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on the Tube could face charges, it has emerged.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it was "likely" to send its report to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider.

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IPCC chairman Nick Hardwick said its investigation had to decide whether its findings indicated that criminal offences may have taken place.

This was a lower threshold than for the CPS, which would then have to decide whether to bring actual charges against any of the officers involved, he said.

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A spokesman for the Menezes family campaign said it was "dismayed" that the IPCC had held a media briefing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4513482.stm