"Armed police officers fired at Jean Charles de Menezes for over 30 seconds when they killed him at Stockwell tube station, according to a witness statement made to independent investigators and obtained by the Guardian.thats pretty incredible if true - she is apparently the only person who accurately recounted that there were ten or eleven shots.
The witness says the shots were fired at intervals of three seconds...
In her statement she says: "The shots were evenly spaced with about three seconds between the shots, for the first few shots, then a gap of a little longer, then the shots were evenly spaced again."...
She says two IPCC investigators who interviewed her were equipped with a map of Stockwell tube which had key features in the wrong place. This initially led them wrongly to challenge her account...
She also says a key detail she gave of the number of shots and the interval between them was missed from her final statement until she insisted it be included"
if we accept for the moment that there was 3 seconds before the first and second shot, then we can probably assume that the first shot went through his brain and killed him - and the rest were just target practice - not very good target practice given that 3 shots missed.
its also interesting that people are still leaking documents...
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