Tube victim’s kin angered by rape claim

[bemildred]

I don't see how you can get much lower than this.

LONDON: Scotland Yard was at the centre of a new row over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes following allegations that he was the suspect in a rape case. It has emerged that the 27-year-old electrician, gunned down by armed officers at Stockwell Tube station, is being linked with a sex attack in London.

Officers have contacted lawyers acting for the dead man’s family to ask for permission to examine DNA samples taken after his death.

These are understood to be held by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) which has been investigating the shooting and has also been contacted by the Metropolitan Police.

The inquiry is in response to a call, more than six months after the Brazilian’s death, from a rape victim who named de Menezes as her attacker.

Gulf Times

[Mike Daniels]

1. They'll dig until they can find something that justified shooting him

[AlCzervik]

2. trying to make the victim seem less sympathetic.

[rooboy]

3. Next thing they'll be saying he moonlighted as an Iraqi insurgent. n/t

[tatertop]

4. I could not conjure up a more preposterous claim

Apparently, they would tell us, while it turns out he possessed no WMDs it's OK we killed him because he was a bad bad man.

[NVMojo]

5. wonder if the US will do that to the bi-polar man they gunned down

at the airport in December? :tinfoilhat:

[HuffleClaw]

7. nah, they'll just 'find' some child porn on his computer

or some 'pro-TERRA' literature on his bookshelves

[Kailassa]

6. So after all this time ...

she's going to cough up the evidence?

[daleo]

8. It would be convenient for the police

It would de-legitimize a person they shot to death, and "solve" a cold-case rape all at once. Since it is a rape, the victim probably doesn't have to be publicly identified. Also handy for the police.

It would be a shame if nobody believed the rape complainant, after all that has transpired regarding Mr. de Menezes. But, that's what happens when the police get a reputation for lying. It would also be a shame if a crime was being pinned on an innocent dead man.