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| No police officers will be prosecuted over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. | No police officers will be prosecuted over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. |
| It follows a review of new evidence which came to light at his inquest. | |
| Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot dead by police at Stockwell Tube station in south London after he was mistaken for one of the failed 21 July 2005 bombers. | Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot dead by police at Stockwell Tube station in south London after he was mistaken for one of the failed 21 July 2005 bombers. |
| In December, an inquest jury returned an open verdict - rejecting the police view that he was killed lawfully. | |
| Stephen O'Doherty, the lawyer who led the CPS review, said: "I have now concluded that there is insufficient evidence that any offence was committed by any individual officers in relation to the tragic death of Mr de Menezes." | |
| He said he had considered whether the officers acted in self-defence and whether they lied to the inquest over what was said and done immediately before the shooting. | |
| The jury had not accept the accounts by the officers known as Charlie 2 and Charlie 12, he said. | |
| "However, although there were some inconsistencies in what the officers said at the inquest, there were also inconsistencies in what passengers had said," he added. | |
| "I concluded that in the confusion of what occurred on the day, a jury could not be sure that any officer had deliberately given a false account of events." |