Tube shooting orders called into question

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.

Mr de Menezes was shot dead at Stockwell Tube Station in London on July 22 after anti-terrorism officers mistook him for a suicide bomber.

Last night it was reported that the person who leaked information about the British police watchdog’s investigation into the shooting had been identified and suspended.