Could you clarify what the “surgical removal of a mans head....”dum dum bullets” is about? I’m missing the reference there.
Jean Charles de Menezes. Innocent victim of a cock up beyond belief. Had his head removed (well pureed is a better description) by 7 Met Police bullets fired by firearms officers.
Why ? Was it because they personally had evidence he was a risk to others ?
No, it was because the huge clown-footed "intelligence" operatives that had managed to completely bungle the identification had told them so.
Now where I come from, killing someone is called "murder", and is very unpopular. So much so that the entire weight of criminal and common law requires very very very very very very clear and definite circumstances before it can be excused. And "Bob told be he as a bad man" is not one of them.
Either the officer that fired the shots were guilty. Or the morons that told them JCdM was a terrorist are guilty. Or the Officer that authorised the use of "Kratos" is guilty. But amazingly, it turned out that none of them were. Apparently we - the Great British public - are supposed to accept that "these things happen".
The poor tube driver came within a millisecond of losing his head too, by the way. That was smuggled very carefully into the enquiry so no one heard it.
There are loads of countries around the world where police effectively executing an innocent man wouldn't even make the news. But I don't like the idea that the UK is one.
(There's also a few sinister aspects to the whole case, like the "eyewitness" that was speaking to the TV crews before he could have got to the surface and managed to provide a wonderfully detailed description of what happened that was entirely fictitious).
Oh dear, I got all ranty again ... still, timers just gone off, so time to put dinner in the oven ....