The New Dark Age

Dear Friends

As you may have heard in the news, the Coroner at the inquest into the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes has ruled that the jury cannot consider the verdict of unlawful killing. Instead he has ruled that they can only return a verdict of lawful or open.

As I write, lawyers for the Menezes family are in the High Court trying to challenge the Coroner’s decision. Due to legal technicalities we cannot comment on this at the moment but will be doing so in due course. Keep an eye on our blog for updates.

This morning as the Coroner started his summing up and the Menezes family and their supporters walked out of court in protest.

We await the outcome of our High Court challenge we we are hoping we can get that before the judges summing up finishes so the jury get the opportunity to return a verdict which reflects all the evidence.

Thanks for all your messages of support. Feel free to bombard the newspapers and press with comment.

Best

Yasmin
J4J Campaign