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On 1 October 2007 Haroon Siddique of The Guardian reported “Timeline: the Stockwell shooting”.

July 7 2005: Attack on London's transport system kills 52 people.

July 21 2005: Another coordinated attack fails when none of the bombs fully explode.

July 22 2005: 10.06am: Jean Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old electrician from Brazil, is killed by armed police at Stockwell tube station.
3.30pm: Sir Ian Blair, the head of the Metropolitan police, tells a press conference: "The information I have available is that this shooting is directly linked to the ongoing and expanding anti-terrorist operation."

July 23 2005: The Met tells the media that the man shot dead at Stockwell is not connected to the July 21 attacks.

July 25 2005: The inquest into the killing of De Menezes opens at Southwark coroners court.

July 29 2005: The funeral of De Menezes is held in his home town of Gonzaga, Brazil.

November 2005: An IPCC investigation called Stockwell Two is announced into the conduct of Sir Ian following the killing of De Menezes.

January 2006: The first IPPC report, Stockwell One, into the killing is handed over to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Its contents have never been made public.

July 2006: The CPS announces that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute any of the officers involved in the killing of De Menezes. But the CPS says it will prosecute the Metropolitan police under health and safety laws for breaching the duty of care it owed the dead man.

September 2006: The inquest into the death of De Menezes is adjourned until after the prosecution of the Metropolitan police under health and safety laws.

May 2007: The IPCC announces that none of the 11 frontline firearms and surveillance officers involved in the shooting will face a disciplinary tribunal.

August 2 2007: The Stockwell Two report finds that by 3pm on the day of the shooting - less than five hours after Jean Charles de Menezes was shot - senior Metropolitan police officers had "strong suspicions" that a Brazilian national had been killed. It says that Sir Ian was misled by Andy Hayman, Britain's most senior counterterrorism officer, in the aftermath of the shooting as to the identity of the man killed by police. It says Mr Hayman briefed reporters on the day of the shooting that the dead man was not one of the July 21 suspects but failed to tell Sir Ian the same thing in a meeting 30 minutes later. The report also questions why Sir Ian was kept "almost totally uninformed" for at least 24 hours about fears that the police had got the wrong man.

September 6 2007: Members of the Metropolitan police authority criticise Sir Ian for not knowing "where the truth lay" over the shooting dead of De Menezes. They say it was "incomprehensible" that he was not aware on the day of the shooting of serious fears among his own officers that an innocent man had been gunned down.

October 1 2007: At the opening of the case against the Met under health and safety laws, the prosecution alleges the police planned the operation that led to the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes so poorly that it "invited disaster" and needlessly put the public at risk.

1 October 2007 Haroon Siddique - The Guardian - Timeline: the Stockwell shooting

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