Police in London have reached a settlement with the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, whom officers shot dead in 2005, mistaking him for a suicide bomber.
Six London police officers have been suspended, Scotland Yard has confirmed, amid British media reports that they allegedly tortured drug suspects.
Jurors at the inquest into the mistaken shooting of an unarmed Brazilian man the day after the failed suicide bombings in London returned an open verdict in the case Friday, the coroner's spokesman said.
Public hearing into the 2005 death of an innocent Brazilian mistaken for a terrorist puts London's police procedures under scrutiny
The commissioner for Britain's Metropolitan Police has survived a confidence vote by the force's governing body by 15 to seven.
London police were found guilty in the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes. ITN's Andrew Carey reports.
London's police department is found guilty in the death of an innocent civilian in the tense days following the London terror bombings. But questions about the death remain unanswered
London's police force was Thursday found guilty of breaching health and safety laws in a dramatic anti-terror operation that resulted in the shooting of an innocent Brazilian man who had been mistaken for a fugitive suicide bomber.
British police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber will not face criminal charges, prosecutors said Monday.
A controversial shoot-to-kill policy to deal with suspected suicide bombers was reviewed following the death of an innocent man, but it remains in place with only minor changes, Britain's most senior police officer has said.
Brazilian officials looking into the fatal police shooting of a Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist on the London Tube were expected to meet prosecutors and the head of the watchdog agency investigating the death Wednesday.
Brazilian officials looking into the fatal police shooting of a Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist on the London Tube have arrived to meet the head of the police watchdog agency investigating the death.
Senior Brazilian officials are in London for meetings with investigators examining the police shooting death of Jean Charles de Menezes on the London Tube.
Brazil's ambassador has said he believes there was no cover-up by British officials in the fatal police shooting of a Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist on the London Tube.
Brazil says it is launching its own investigation into the fatal shooting of an innocent national mistaken for a bombing suspect in London's July terror attacks.
Pressure was growing on London's police chief to resign as a panel investigating the shooting death of an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a bombing suspect met with his family's lawyers.
A British television network has reported that an innocent Brazilian man shot dead by British police who mistook him for a London bombing suspect had been behaving normally before his death.
The family of an innocent Brazilian shot dead by British police who mistook him for a bombing suspect have called for a public inquiry after a TV network reported he had been behaving normally before his death.
The Brazilian man mistakenly shot and killed by anti-terrorist police in London last week had a false stamp on his passport and had been in Britain for two years with an expired visa, officials say.
The body of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian man shot dead by undercover police at a London Underground station, will be flown back to Brazil on Wednesday, solicitors for his family said.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said police in London had faced a shoot-to-kill decision seven times since the bombings in the British capital of July 7.
Saying he is "very, very sorry" over last week's mistaken shooting of an unarmed Brazilian, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Monday said a compensation claim for the slain man's family would be "handled sympathetically and quickly."
Police said they regret the death of a Brazilian national shot and killed Friday by armed officers in a London Underground subway station, after determining he "was not connected" with last week's string of attempted bombings. .
A third man has been arrested in connection with the investigation into Thursday's attempted bombings of the London transit system, Scotland Yard said Sunday.
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