Family of Brazilian shot dead on tube to get fraction of Met boss Blair pay-off

originally published:
23rd November 2009

The family of Jean Charles de Menezes are to receive reduced compensation because they are so poor. The limited financial support they could have received from the Brazilian electrician – shot dead by police marksmen – will also count against them.

Lawyers for Scotland Yard and the family are believed to have reached an out-of-court settlement. Although the amount is covered by a confidentiality clause, sources said it would have been much higher if Mr de Menezes, 27, had left a widow and children or came from a wealthy family. But when he died in 2005, his parents were living in a dilapidated one-bedroom house deep in the Brazilian rainforest.

The family’s lawyers had suggested they would claim £300,000 from the Metropolitan Police for the disastrous operation that led to their son being mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot seven times in the head at Stockwell Tube station. But it now appears the final pay-out could be as low as £100,000.

That represents just a quarter of the £400,000 pay-off received by former Met chief Sir Ian Blair, who faced calls to resign over the shooting, was condemned by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and heard his marksmen branded liars by an inquest jury.

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