Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama of his killing
source: The Guardian
published: 22 April 2025
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The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.
Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people.
Would-be suicide bombers had targeted the London Underground on 21 July but their devices failed to explode. De Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian electrician, was mistaken for one of the suspects because they were linked to the same block of flats.
Friends and family of Jean Charles de Menezes - the innocent man shot dead by police in the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings - held a memorial service to mark the 10th anniversary of his death.
The family of the Brazilian electrician say they're still fighting for justice, and still want police officers to be prosecuted over the shooting.
Home Affairs Correspondent Nick Beake reports
No officers were ever prosecuted for the killing but the Metropolitan police was fined for breaching health and safety laws. The officer in charge of the botched operation was Cressida Dick, who became Metropolitan police commissioner in 2017.
The fatal shooting is the subject of a new four-part Disney+ drama starring Line of Duty’s Daniel Mays and Being Human’s Russell Tovey, airing on 30 April.
Speaking in London at a preview screening, De Menezes’s mother, Maria de Menezes, recalled the moment she learned of her son’s death nearly 20 years ago.
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