Boarding a tube train whilst Brazilian hasn’t yet been established as sufficient reason to be lawfully killed, but Sir Michael Wright, the coroner in charge of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, has at least ruled that shooting dead a passenger going about their every day business on public transport is not “unlawful.”
The coroner in the case of Harry Stanley, shot dead by the Met, similarly restricted the jury verdict, prompting this piece from Paul Foot: Continue reading