8th time lucky.
Just when you thought that the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes couldn't get any worse, it does.
The pen is meant to be mightier than the sword. Maybe the pen on the lawsuit will be.
Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician mistakenly gunned down by anti-terrorist police at Stockwell tube station, was shot eight times, an inquest was told today.
Mr De Menezes, 27, died on Friday, the day after the failed suicide bombings on London's transport network. Details of how he died were confirmed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
An inquest, which was opened into his death earlier today at Southwark coroners court, heard that he was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder.
Eyewitnesses to the shooting had reported he had been shot five times after failing to stop when challenged by the plain-clothes officers. His family are considering legal action.
The pen is meant to be mightier than the sword. Maybe the pen on the lawsuit will be.
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