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| Menezes police 'gave no warning' | Menezes police 'gave no warning' |
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| Armed police fired on Jean Charles de Menezes without shouting any warning, a witness has told an inquest. | Armed police fired on Jean Charles de Menezes without shouting any warning, a witness has told an inquest. |
| Commuter Ralph Livock said he had "no idea" the men who shot dead the Brazilian at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005 were police. | |
| Firearms officers have told the inquest there were several warning shouts of "armed police" before shots were fired. | Firearms officers have told the inquest there were several warning shouts of "armed police" before shots were fired. |
| Mr de Menezes, 27, was killed by police who mistook him for one of the failed 21 July 2005 London bombers. | Mr de Menezes, 27, was killed by police who mistook him for one of the failed 21 July 2005 London bombers. |
| The inquest has been told a surveillance officer had positively identified Mr de Menezes as failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman. | |
| Mr Livock said he and girlfriend Rachel Wilson were sitting opposite Mr de Menezes in a Tube carriage the day after the failed bombings. | |
| He recalled their train was held up for longer than usual when four casually-dressed men armed with guns got on board. | |
| 'Group of lads' | |
| Nicholas Hilliard QC, counsel to the inquest, asked him: "Did you have any idea who they were?" | |
| Mr Livock said: "Absolutely not." | |
| He said he initially thought the plainclothes officers were "a group of lads who were just having a laugh" because they were just dressed in jeans and T-shirts. | |
| Mr Hilliard asked: "Had you heard anything said about police?" | |
| Mr Livock replied: "No, certainly not. | |
| "I remember that specifically because one of the conversations that Rachel and I had afterwards was that we had no idea whether these were police, whether they were terrorists, whether they were somebody else. | |
| "The thing that made me realise it wasn't a group of lads playing around or something else happening was when the first shot was fired." | |
| The inquest continues. |