Woman involved in leaking information
on Menezes murder arrested
(25.09.2005)
A
woman, believed to be the person who leaked findings about the shooting
of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes in the Stockwell tube station,
has been arrested.
Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot 8 times (7 times
in the head), by police (who thought he was a suicide bomber), was
later found to be completely innocent.
The 43 year old woman, who is suspected of leaking the findings
of the Independent Police Complaints Commission report on the killing,
was located after several homes in London were searched. The woman
has since been released on bail.
The information provided in the leak indicated that a cover-up
had taken place. Jean Charles de Menezes' family are still answers
into the killing and have demanded that those involved be punished
and that Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair resign.
No
further details of the woman have been released or the grounds for
her arrest. An inquiry into how the documents were leaked was set
up by the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) in August,
and it would appear that more effort has been placed on trying to
locate the "leaker" than was applied to the surveillance
on Menezes.
Let's hope that the same enthusiasm placed on finding this woman,
who sought to reveal the truth, is applied to those who were responsible
for actually murdering Jean Charles de Menezes.
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