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In the firing line: Three years on from the Stockwell shooting, Sir Ian Blair is finally being...

The real question: How much longer can he cling on? At 10.06am tomorrow, exactly three years will have passed since members of the Metropolitan Police Service's CO19 firearms squad boarded a Tube train at Stockwell station and shot dead Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, in the mistaken belief he was a suicide bomber. Members of the dead man's family and their supporters will mark the anniversary with a vigil at the spot. Later, near Parliament Square, they will place a flower sculpture, bearing the words 'Menezes - 3 Years No Justice'. Troubled times: Could Sir Ian Blair step down before his time to retire? Unsatisfied by two official reports into the events of that day, and a health and safety trial which found the Met guilty of endangering the public, the De Menezes family wants everyone responsible for the... [read full story]                    

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