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Death of an innocent man

By Channel 4 News

Updated on 16 August 2005

It was a catastrophic failure of intelligence - ending in the death of an innocent man mistaken for a suicide bomber.


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An official inquiry is underway into the fatal shooting of the young Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes - a tragedy shrouded in confusion from the start.

Now tonight, leaked documents and photographs from that report reveal just how badly the police operation may have gone wrong. The leaked draft - obtained by ITV News -shows:



Our home affairs correspondent Simon Israel reports.

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