Blair 'must have known' as Menezes death-rumours abounded

The startling speed at which rumours spread across the force that an innocent man had been shot was revealed in the IPCC report.

Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes said it was “unbelievable” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair did not know that an innocent man had been killed that day.

An Independent Police Complaints Commission report issued today describes the speed at which rumours spread across the force that an innocent man had been shot.