Free Republic

Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism police officer faces disciplinary action after the police watchdog concluded he “misled” senior colleagues over the shooting of an innocent man at a London Tube station in 2005. Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, head of counter-terrorism and intelligence for the Metropolitan Police, “misled” senior officers by failing to tell them at the earliest opportunity that Jean Charles de Menezes was not one of four would-be suicide bombers hunted by police. The Independent Police Complaints Commission also concluded that the head of London’s police force was “almost totally uninformed” of events following the shooting of at Stockwell underground...