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| | Jean Charles de Menezes: Brazilian Did Not Wear Bulky Jacket: Relatives say Met admits that, contrary to reports, electrician did not leap tube station barrier MARK HONIGSBAUM / The Guardian (UK) 28jul2005 |
 | | Speaking at a press conference after a meeting with the Metropolitan police, Vivien Figueiredo, 22, said that the first reports of how her 27-year-old cousin had come to be killed in mistake for a suicide bomber on Friday at Stockwell tube station were wrong. |
 | | Menezes, 27, was killed Friday, July 22, in London, at the Stockwell subway station as police investigated the series of attempted transit bombings a day earlier and the July 7 attacks that killed 56 people. |
 | | Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot dead in the head, was not wearing a heavy jacket that might have concealed a bomb, and did not jump the ticket barrier when challenged by armed plainclothes police, his cousin said yesterday. |
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