Yesterday, the Azelle Rodney Inquiry, Azelle Rodney Inquiry, published its report.
The Executive Summary of the Report is here: The Executive Summary of the Azelle Rodney Inquiry Report .
The full Report is here: The Azelle Rodney Inquiry Report .
The BBC reports its conclusions as indicating that there was no lawful basis for the killing of Azelle Rodney by a Metropolitan Police firearms officer: Azelle Rodney death: 'No justification' for police shooting
Other media outlets are more forthright, indicating that Azelle Rodney was unlawfully killed. See, for example, Azelle Rodney death: unlawful killing verdict for Met marksman
in the Guardian and Police marksman may face trial over botched shooting of suspected gangster Azelle Rodney in the Independent.
The Crown Prosecution Service previously had decided not to prosecute the firearms officer.
It will be interesting to see if they change that position in light of the Inquiry's report.
I have recently been reading parts of the MacPherson Report into the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
There are disturbing similarities in the arguably shambolic organisation of the Metropolitan Police Service operation in both cases.
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