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Another member of the surveillance team grabs him and holds him down in his seat. "I grabbed the male in the denim jacket by wrapping both my arms around his torso, pinning his arms to his side. I then pushed him back on to the seat where he had been previously sitting ... I then heard a gun shot very close to my left ear and was dragged away on to the floor of the carriage."

De Menezes is shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder, according to the post-mortem examination. Three other bullets missed their target. The spent bullet cases are left lying on the floor of the carriage

10.50am: News of the shooting breaks in the media. The first reports indicate that a suspected suicide bomber, possibly one of the four failed bombers of the previous day, has been shot at Stockwell Tube

One member of the public is widely reported saying that he saw about 20 police officers, some of them armed, rushing into the station before a man jumped over the barriers with police giving chase. Another witness says that the man had wires trailing from his jacket and what appeared to be a bomb belt

Another says that the victim looked Pakistani and was wearing a thick winter coat. He describes him as looking like a "cornered fox" as he was "hotly pursued", that he half tripped on his way into the train and was then shot five times in the head

11.50am: Scotland Yard confirms that the victim died at the scene.

4pm: Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, tells a press conference that the shooting was "directly linked" to anti-terror operations. He says: "As I understand the situation, the man was challenged and refused to obey police instructions."

That afternoon: the Met issues a statement that suggests that officers were assuming that the dead man was one of the previous day's bombers. It reads: "The man shot at Stockwell station is still subject to formal identification and it is not yet clear whether he is one of the four people we are seeking to identify and whose pictures have been released today. It therefore remains extremely important that members of the public continue to assist police in relation to all four pictures.

"This death, like all deaths related to police operations, is obviously a matter of deep regret. Nevertheless the man who was shot was under police observation because he had emerged from a house that was itself under observation because it was linked to the investigation of yesterday’s incidents. He was then followed by surveillance officers to the station. His clothing and his behaviour at the station added to their suspicions"

Saturday, July 23

5pm: Scotland Yard says that the victim was not connected to attempted terror attacks on the capital. A spokeswoman said: "For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets"

It is announced that the death is being investigated by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards, and will be referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission

9.30pm: Scotland Yard confirmed the identity of the victim as 27-year-old Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes

Sunday July 25

10.30am: Sir Ian Blair apologises to the family but says that there will be no change to the police shoot-to-kill policy

2.30pm: Tony Blair says that he is "desperately sorry" at the death of an innocent person

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