UK lawmakers grill London top cop
A shoot-to-kill policy for suspected suicide bombers was reviewed following the death of an innocent Brazilian man in London but remains in place, Britain's top police officer said yesterday.
Ian Blair, head of London's Metropolitan Police, came face to face with relatives of electrician Jean Charles de Menezes as he appeared before an influential panel of lawmakers at the House of Commons.
The all-party Home Affairs Select Committee quizzed Blair, as well as interior minister Charles Clarke, at length about the official response to the London bombings in July.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. On July 22, de Menezes was shot repeatedly in the head by police officers at a London Underground subway station in circumstances which are still being investigated.
The incident came a day after a seemingly failed wave of suicide bomb attacks on subway trains and a bus. Two weeks before, 52 people and four suicide bombers were killed in a near-identical set of attacks.
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