July 21, 2005

Attempted suicide bomb attacks on London, two weeks after July 7 attacks

July 22, 2005

10:06 De Menezes shot by police marksmen at Stockwell Underground station

Factfile: revelations from the de Menezes trial

Information about the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, on July 22, 2005, that has emerged during the trial

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• Pictures: Jean Charles de Menezes

BACKGROUND

• Ian Blair survives no confidence vote

• Timeline: how de Menezes identity emerged

• Come quietly, Sir Ian – you’re banged to rights

• ‘It is my task to ensure that lessons are learnt’

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• Watchdog rebukes top officers over Menezes

10:10 His wallet, containing his identity card, and his mobile phone recovered

10:30 Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), says he was told by Assistant Commisioner Andy Hayman that a man was shot

10:46 First MPS press release says that a man has been shot at Stockwell Underground

11:41 Second MPS press release issued, saying that a man was challenged by officers and subsequently shot

13:55 First meeting between Hayman and Blair. Hayman says no information available on identity of dead man

14:00 Photographs and numbers from Jean Charles de Menezes’s mobile phone at New Scotland Yard

14:50 Mr de Menezes's identity card, showing his Brazilian nationality, is in the office at New Scotland Yard

15:10 Two secretaries in Sir Ian Blair's front office are aware of the id card

15:30 Brian Paddick, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, is told: “We’ve shot a Brazilian tourist”

15:30 Sir Ian Blair tells press conference that shooting is "directly linked" to the investigation into the previous day's failed suicide bombings

16:30 Hayman is first told that the shot man is not thought to be one of the four men being hunted after the previous day's attempted bombings

After 16:30 Hayman tells journalists at a briefing of specialist crime reporters that the dead man was thought not to be one of four – he disputes this, saying he would not have speculated

17:00 Detective Inspector Howarth at Marylebone Police Station, who had no involvement in the investigation, was told that there had been a massive ‘cock up’ at Stockwell and a Brazilian tourist had been shot

17:07 BBC start quoting the police as saying the man was not one of the four bombers

17.00 or 18.00 (approx) Blair and Hayman and others discuss the Met's third press release to be issued. Hayman fails to tell his boss what he has just suggested to the journalists. Blair takes personal role in preparing the release

18:44 Third press release issued, saying that it is not clear if the man was one of the four bombers. Release adds that the dead man's clothing and behaviour of the man added to police suspicion, and that he emerged from a house that was under investigation linked to yesterday’s attempted bombings

21:45 Anti-terrorism branch formally hands over the investigation to police, after being satisfied no link to the attempted bombings

23:05 MPS fourth press release issued, saying that officers confronted a 27-year-old who was subsequently shot

23:37 MPS fifth press release issued. It says that dead man was challenged by officers, and that it is not yet clear whether he was one of the four bombers, although his clothing and behaviour added to police suspicion, and he emerged from a house that was under investigation linked to yesterday’s attempted bombings

July 23, 2005

10:15 Blair officially told identity of dead man in meeting. No longer takes role in preparing press releases

16:52 MPS sixth press release issued. It says police "think" they know identity of the dead man, and are satisfied that there is no connection with attempted bombings, although his clothing and behaviour added to police suspicion

21:28 MPS ninth press release names Jean Charles de Menezes

August 19, 2005

Sir Ian Blair says in interview in the News of the World that for 24 hours, everyone who advised him and he himself believed it a suicide bomber or suspected bomber.

August 20, 2005

Brian Paddick queries the truth of Sir Ian's interview

November 9, 2005

Sir Ian Blair says in interview in the Guardian: “I’m quite clear that by 7.30 at night we still had nothing that was identifying him otherwise we wouldn’t have been putting out the message that we were putting out.”

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