DeMenezes family sueing Scotland Yard

The deMenezes family are sueing the Police for (setting up and executing their son) "damages."

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The family of Jean Charles de Menezes is to continue their legal battle by suing the Metropolitan police for damages for killing the Brazilian electrician, the Guardian has learned.

Yesterday the family were told that the two police marksmen who shot dead the innocent Brazilian after mistaking him for a terrorist will not face prosecution, despite a jury disbelieving key parts of their account of the killing.

In December a jury at the inquest into the killing returned an open verdict after hearing damning evidence of police blunders that led to the shooting.

He was killed on 22 July 2005 in a tube carriage by officers hunting for suicide bombers who had attacked London's transport network the previous day.

After the inquest, where the jury rejected the verdict of lawful killing, the Crown Prosecution Service decided to review its earlier decision that no individual officer should face criminal charge.

The CPS yesterday said its review had concluded and it believed that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the two officers had lied in their accounts.

The family said it would not try to overturn the decision by the coroner not to allow the jury to consider a verdict of unlawful killing as it had previously threatened. But sources said the family would sue Scotland Yard for damages.

De Menezes' cousin, Vivian Figuierdo, said: "We condemn the CPS decision and reject the logic of their argument. The inquest put the truth out there for all the public to see, but the authorities want us to forget the truth to stop us getting justice. But we will never forget."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/14/jean-charles-de-menezes-case