Background to the Stockwell police execution

1. THE STORY

CLAIM - Police initially said Jean Charles de Menezes had come out of a house linked to failed 21 July attacks

FACT - The building in Tulse Hill was a three-storey block of nine flats. All residents used the same communal entrance

2. MISTAKEN IDENTITY

Surveillance officers had CCTV stills of the 21 July suspects, including Hussain Osman (right), who slightly resembled the victim. But no positive link was ever made because police failed to send images of Mr de Menezes (left) back to Scotland Yard

3. THE FATEFUL JOURNEY

CLAIM - Officers said Mr de Menezes behaved suspiciously by getting on and off the same bus and also wore a bulky coat

FACT - He did get off the bus but displayed no other "suspicious" behaviour. He was wearing a light denim jacket

4. THE COMMANDER

The IPCC has established, after initial confusion, that the officer in charge of operations on 22 July was Commander Cressida Dick, and that she was responsible for co-ordinating the surveillance team and gave the order for firearms officers to go to Stockwell station

5. THE TUBE STATION

CLAIM - Sir Ian Blair said Mr de Menezes defied a police challenge. Some witnesses said that he vaulted Tube barriers

FACT T- he Brazilian used his Oyster card at the barriers after picking up a free paper, unaware he was being followed

6. THE CARRIAGE

CLAIM - Witnesses said Mr de Menezes fled armed police on to the train platform and then on to a Northern line train

FACT - He did run part of the way to catch the train. But once in the carriage he walked calmly to his seat

7. THE SHOOTING

CLAIM - Mr de Menezes got to the floor when police pursued him on to the carriage and was then surrounded and shot

FACT - A surveillance officer sat near Mr de Menezes, who leapt up when grabbed. He wasshot eight times

8. THE AFTERMATH

CLAIM - Police believed he was a suicide bomber, maybe with explosives. Some witnesses saw 'wires' inhis jacket

FACT - Investigators found the victim was carrying no weapons, and merely had a wallet in his pockets

From Sophie Goodchild and Steve Bloomfield at The Independent