Looks like a few London cops are going to go down pretty hard soon:
LONDON: Undercover London police officers faked vital evidence to cover up their fatal role in the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, mistaken for a suicide bomber, a newspaper alleged on Sunday.
Special Branch officers from London?s Metropolitan Police tried to change a surveillance log detailing the electrician?s movements to hide the fact that they had wrongly identified him, the News of the World weekly claimed.
De Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head on a London Underground train at Stockwell station in south London.
He was killed on July 22 last year, the day after an alleged attempt to replicate the July 7 attacks by four suspected suicide bombers which killed 52 innocent Underground and bus commuters.
[…]A Special Branch officer mistakenly reported that De Menezes was Hussein Osman, 27, who is facing charges of conspiracy to murder in connection with the July 21 incident.
However, once they realised their fatal error, the log was altered to read that no positive identification had been made.
A government department source told the tabloid: ?It says the log was actually tampered with in a major way.
?In particular the words AND and NOT were inserted about the Osman ID, so it read ?and it was not Osman? rather than ?it was Osman?.? The log was allegedly changed at a debriefing meeting 10 hours after the Brazilian was gunned down.
Never ceases to amaze me when people do everything in their power to avoid the fact that they made a mistake. Take your lumps for the mistake and be done with it. Instead these guys tried to cover up the mistake and will likely face much more serious charges now.
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