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De Menezes family lose right to challenge CPS
ECHR says decision not to charge any Met Police officers was justified
THE family of Jean Charles de Menezes vowed not to “give up the fight” yesterday after losing a challenge over the decision not to charge any police officers responsible for the electrician’s death.
His cousin Patricia Armani da Silva had brought the case to the European Court of Human Rights last year.
The family’s lawyers argued that the call not to prosecute any individual over the shooting on July 22 2005 was in breach of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights — the right to life.
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