Alex Pereira spoke of when he identified the body of his innocent cousin Jean Charles de Menezes, who was ruthlessly executed on a tube train by state assassins, for the crime of wearing an unfashionable jacket. And of course, the crime of not stopping when he didn’t read the minds of the pursuing pack armed to the neck with sub-machine guns and semi-automatic pistols.
Pereira said that the most upsetting part of identifying his cousin was ‘to see bullet wounds in his back and his neck when I went to the mortuary in Greenwich.’
The Observer, Sunday July 24th 2005
Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder, at Stockwell Tube station, south London, on Friday.
Det Insp Elizabeth Baker revealed the details at a hearing in London.
The BBC, Monday July 25th 2005
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