De Menezes: timeline of crucial hours
Updated on 01 November 2007
A six-hour period on the morning of 22 July 2005 was the focus of the Metropolitan Police trial over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.
4.20am: Commander John McDowell receives the information that Osman's gym card has been found in a rucksack at Shepherd's Bush. It is discovered that Osman lived at 21 Scotia Road.
4.55am: Mr McDowell orders a surveillance operation to be mounted around Scotia Road with support from specialist SO19 firearms officers.
6.04am: 'Red' surveillance team deployed to Scotia Road.
7.00am: SO19 firearms "black team" comes on duty at Leman Street police station in east London, before drawing their weapons from the armoury.
8.33am: "Grey" surveillance team deployed to Scotia Road.
9.34am: Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent 27-year-old Brazilian, leaves the communal door of the flats at Scotia Road.
The court heard that one surveillance officer, codenamed Frank, was unable to record Mr de Menezes leaving the flat as he was "relieving himself" at the time.
While being followed by police surveillance officers, Mr de Menezes is seen getting on a number 2 bus to Brixton station, which is shut, getting off at Brixton and using his mobile phone.
He then makes a U-turn before getting back on the same bus.
'Man has been shot, evacuation taking place... not carrying anything'Police log
9.52am: The Scotland Yard log records "guy o/s tube station OSMAN ... What doing at tube station? Very jumpy".
It also has a reference to whether surveillance officers should stop him, apparently attributed to Cressida Dick: "Brixton Tube (OSMAN). Don't want your people going up to this man, that will be SO19".
9.56am: The log says "Still on bus ... Are you moving your firearms team. Yes".
9.59am: A reference in the log to "denim clothing" and then "top deck heading down the stairs".
10.01am: The log says "has been on phone sending text messages". A note apparently signed off by Cressida Dick reads: "If good IDent can't let him down the tube".
10.03am: An entry says that "19 (the firearms team) can see bus" then "CD. Is he carrying anything? No".
The next note is "off bus" and then "down the tube".
10.04am: "Must be challenged before getting down the tube. Stockwell Tube. No stop without 19. Down escalator to the tube. Not carrying anything."
10.05am: The log reads "12 to do it", a reference to Special Branch (SO12) surveillance officers being asked to stop the man as SO19 have yet to arrive.
It continues: "SO19 doing stop do not let surveillance intervene."
As officers pursue Mr de Menezes into the Tube, radio contact is lost and at around this time he is shot five times in the head, once in the shoulder and once in the neck.
10.06am: A note marked "CD" asks for "some more uniforms to the scene" and "people being directed away from tube".
10.07am: The log says "everything alright upstairs - don't know what is happening downstairs. Shut grills on tube station".
10.08am: "Subject has been shot. Ambulance asap - there now. BTP already aware."
10.10am: The log records: "SO19 - man has been shot, evacuation taking place ... not carrying anything".
