Stockwell murder - Chief suspect to be further questioned by IPCC

Mike Grant, a senior investigator at the Independent Police Complaints Commission, (IPCC) will undertake an enquiry (Press release) into the conduct of Sir Ian Blair (pix with Jonathan Aitken's "Sword of Justice") after shooting in July of an Jean de Menezes. This is related to the family’s complaints that ``false public statements'' were made by police officials about the killing.

The investigation is separate from another into the circumstances surrounding the murder of the 27 year-old Brazilian electrician at Stockwell tube station in July.
``Neither we nor Jean Charles' family want this complaint to distract us from the main task of finding out how and why Jean Charles died,'' IPCC Chair Nick Hardwick said in the statement. ``We still expect our investigation into the shooting to be completed by the end of December.''

Not wishing in any way to pre-empt the results of the enquiry, Sir Ian Blair told straightforward lies in public about the events, and furthermore obstructed and delayed the activities and investigations of the IPCC by writing to the Home Office (letter c/o BBC pdf alert Met website copy)requesting a formal delay in initiating the IPCC mandatory enquiry, required when a Police officer had shot someone dead in public, after having refused their staff access to the murder site.

Imran Patel got 4 months for fucking the News of the World about, pretending to be the 5th, "7/7 bomber", one wonders what lying about officially sanctioned murder, and obstructing the course of justice, will get Sir Ian, the mastermind from Christ Church.

On the pm BBC Radio news programme at 17.20 the Met are reported to be helping the IPCC in every way, although nothing has appeared on their website.

Recent blogs on same topic here

See Dear Kitty Blog
Excellent Scotsman article today (Tuesday 29th)
Interesting brief autobiog from John Wadham Director IPCC here on Liberty website.
Also World Press biog on John Wadham.