Two footballers provided valuable inside information to raiders in a payroll robbery that ended in murder, the Old Bailey in London heard today.

IT remains unclear whether one of the senior officers at the centre of the operation that led to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes had ordered him to be taken alive.

Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes are today expected to be updated on the investigation into his fatal shooting by armed police.

The shooting dead of an innocent Brazilian by anti-terror police in London was branded “shocking and terrifying” after new details of alleged police blunders emerged.

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.

The family of the Brazilian man killed by the British police said yesterday he had acted as “training” for the security forces.

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.

SENIOR British police officers last night insisted there would be no change to a controversial shoot-to-kill policy after an innocent man was gunned down.