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De Menezes judge – Lord Justice Richards – arrested over allegation of exposure

Tuesday 23 January 2007 at 7:24 am | In News | Post Comment

Lord Justice of Appeal, Sir Stephen Richards last week sat in the Divisional Court of the High Court where he presided over the appeal into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot dead at Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005 by police officers who mistook him for a terror suspect.

Following a ruling in the Divisional Court the family can now ask the House of Lords to consider the case. Direct appeals from the High Court to the House of Lords bypass the Court of Appeal a process known as the “Leapfrog Procedure“.

Sir Stephen is the subject of an enquiry by British Transport Police into an incident that allegedly took place on a train in the London area last year; a commuter made a complaint to police that a man had exposed himself to her.