Cressida Dick - taking the heat off Sir Ian Blair

The news is that Gold Commander on the day the Metropolitan Police murdered de Menezes Ms. Cressida Dick is being considered by the CPS for some sort of charge, conspiracy to be a Gold Commander on a sunny day, whatever.

Lord Patel took the opportunity to discover a little bit more about this lady whose biogs. stress she is Oxford educated (that means she went to school in Oxford, not University)

Gun crime does a number of things
Wednesday, August 17 2005

246 people from 100 agencies crammed the Hanover Hotel, in Hinckley, Leicestershire, for the Independent Advisory Group on May 24/5th 2004.

On of the key speakers at this beano, was Commander Cressida Black who was Gold Commander on 22nd June when De Menezes was shot dead by Police.

The full proceedings are here, but this may be an interesting taster , pages 10/11

“She said that gun crime has a large effect on communities. (Cressida was born and brought up and educated in Oxford) …. It is a sad fact that if a young black man is shot in London today, it is unlikely to hit the headlines. Gun crime does a number of things:

It wrecks lives
It creates fear
It effects confidence in and between communities
It erodes the confidence between the Police and other agencies
It has a huge economic cost with loss of investment and provoking “middle class flight”


Well, as for the two sharpshooters. who pumped 8 / 11 / 13 bullets into the head Brazilian electrician, they wuz only obeyin' orders guv.

Don't hold your breath that anyone will even be disciplined for the murder of an inoccent man in broad daylight whilst going about his business.

Coincidentally Deputy Commissioner Yates might decide to forget about the cash for coronets nonsense,especially as some of the evidence seems to have gone up in smoke.

Of course the people who put about the stroies that de Menezes was an illegal alien , rapist, whatever , the journalists who swallowed the stories, the Editors who printed it .... well, one of life'slittle mysteries how these stories get about.