THE student visa of Jean Charles de Menezes expired more than two years before he was wrongly shot by police, a British Home Office spokeswoman said last night.

Hundreds of relatives and friends of the Brazilian shot dead by police in London after being mistaken for a terrorist marched along the cobbled streets of his home town, demanding the arrest of the officers who fired the fatal shots.

Weeping relatives and friends of a Brazilian shot and killed in London after being mistaken for a terrorist protested today in their small farming town, saying an apology by British Prime Minister Tony Blair didn’t go far enough.

THE parents of the Brazilian man shot dead on a London Underground train yesterday wept as they recalled how he was trying to save enough money by working abroad to return to his homeland to become a cattle rancher.