De Menezes hearing told of delay in briefing specialist firearms unit

A four-hour delay in briefing firearms officers on the morning Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead was "totally unacceptable", a special branch officer in charge of surveillance told a court yesterday. The man, who gave evidence from behind a screen at the Old Bailey in London, said that he had first told the specialist units they were needed at 5am.

However, the court has heard that the firearms teams were still not in place outside the block of flats where Mr De Menezes lived ... (49 more words)

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