This is breaking news and has been cross-posted on Kos.
The Metropolitan Police have just announced that the man shot dead at Stockwell Underground station was not involved in the investigation.
The news is breaking and there are suggestions that other forces than the Police might be involved but the killing is to be investigated initially by the Scotland Yard Professional Standards Unit and referred to the Police Complaints Commission.
The BBC report on the breaking news (the story in the link may change after posting)
Regarding the press statement:
The statement read: “We believe we now know the identity of the man shot at Stockwell Underground station by police on Friday 22nd July 2005, although he is still subject to formal identification.
“We are now satisfied that he was not connected with the incidents of Thursday 21st July 2005.
“For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets.”
The statement confirmed the man was followed by police from a block of flats that was under surveillance.
A spokeswoman from the human rights group Liberty has issued a statement expressing sympathy for the family of the victim and the policemen asking that no-one should rush to judgement
Background: BBC report on new rules of engagement.
If Special Forces were involved in the killing, there is an echo in the 1998 killing of a suspected Irish terrrorist in Gibraltar. The killing was the subject of a landmark documentary “Death on the Rock”
