Point-Blank Inquest After Point-Blank Killing. By Uncle Monty.

Point-Blank Inquest After Point-Blank Killing.

Story By Uncle Monty.

Graphics By Alex Albion.

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Herds and herds of herding immigrant and foreign-born
schools kidz herded right past me on their way to their

morning academies as I stood patiently outside the re-

nowned Oval Cricket Gound at about 8:00am. I was there

to obtain a day pass to attend Her Majesty's Coroner Court,

held at The Oval’s Sir John Major Conference Centre, into the

brutal British police slaughter of Jean Charles de Menezes

27, of Brazil, by New Scotland Yard’s anti-terror squad

more than three summers ago inside London’s

Stockwell Underground Tube Station.
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By 10 o’clock, I was inside the courtroom itself now
sitting on the front row of some thirty reserved media

seats with my pencil and paper at hand to record my

first full day inside the coroner court, which was presided

over by Sir Michael Wright, 76, who was a superb and affable

royal judge. Some sixty other seats were reserved for lead-
ing barristers, other legal counsel, and inquest witnesses.
While only perhaps eighteen or so seats were assigned for
members of the public that I saw numbered only about

seven people on what was the seventh day of The de

Menezes Inquest. It will conclude with a jury verdict

sometime before Christmas, 2oo8.
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I've just gotten back from the jury hearing
after dinner with dear Paula Grey. So I have
had little time to write my full story of today's
court proceedings that saw only one inquest witness
of the day - Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector
Jon Boutcher - who was grilled under oath for more
than 6½ hours by such leading counsel as Michael
Mansfield, Q.C. for the de Menezes Family.

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I will returned shortly to present my full impressions

of what I saw and heard inside The de Menezes Inquest.

In the meantime, I'll just give you here a brief sense of

my own take on the witness Jon Boutcher and the mec-

hanical composition of jury, who impressed me not.

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Living in his own world of high-ranking cops and
big-time robbers, Jon Boutcher seems to have lost
the de Menezes plot somewhere along the deadly

winding road much like his own boss, the American

police-educated Sir Ian Blair, who heads Scotland Yard
by virtue of his government position as Commissioner
of the increasingly politicized and armed Metropolitan

Police under the power-crazy hacks of New Labour.

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If the inquest jury rules that Jean Charles de Menezes

was "unlawfully killed" by The Met police then the

story goes that he, Ian Blair, will be finally booted

from out of Scotland Yard (“Hurray,” did I hear?),

with presumably, a nice fat payoff and a huge police

pension running into hundreds of thousands of

pounds. So, we'll see you later pal …
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As for the racial and ethnic composition of the

sitting jury, that is to sit through the ongoing projected
12 week-long de Menezes Inquest, they looked alot like
those herds of immigrant and foreign-born schoolkidz
I saw going to school earlier this morning as I stood

outside The Oval. The majority of the jury are black

and/or ethnic men and women with only a token white

face or two or three to roundout the empanelled inquest

jury. I almost then sensed The Met was already doomed

by the sheer makeup of the jury by its racial and ethnic

combo. It’s a well-known fact that the majority of

immigrants and foreigners are not fond of what they

see as the British police intense tactics of stops and

searches of them on the city streets and at train

stations and at London underground entrances and
exists. All such is done, so we are told, to prevent
terrorists and knife-wielding young punkz. Ah,

well … The boyz in blue sure know the answerz

and curez, don’t they?
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While in sharp contrast to the jury mix at the de

Menezes Inquest, almost every British barrister at

the inquest was lily white and male with a sprinkling

of white female legal assistants. Just one black female

lawyer did I see. Why have more, anyway? Aside from
whatever comes out of the de Menezes jury verdict,
it is clear the wickedly-expensive Inns of Court
barristers will clean up very nicely, thank you very
much, with their top exorbitant legal fees and

ever-fancy expenses from the inquest running

into the millions of pounds sterling. "The Legal

Brethren" love things like high-profile inquests, like

those of Diana and de Menezes, for they bring huddles
of big-bank cash for them despite the global credit
crunch and failing institutional banks here, there,

and everwhere, thesedays. And, while others

almost starve. Do they care? Well, hell no ...

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I may return to present more of my impressions of

what else I saw and heard inside The de Menezes

Inquest. But if I don't, it will be due to other pressing

issues and my ever-busy life that seems to get busier

as I get more like a crouchy old toad not always

sure at where I should toad off to ... next. There's

nothing worse than a crouchy old toad and that I

should know being one myself. So true, you see?

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:: News Update ::

METROPOLITAN POLICE COMMISSIONER

SIR IAN BLAIR HAS SUDDENLY QUIT AT THE

11TH HOUR. GOOD RIDDANCE TO HIM ...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24439617-12335,00.html

Oct, 2nd, 2oo8.

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Dedication Painting to Charles de Menezes at
www.allisoncarmichael.com/Menezes.html
“Jean Charles de Menezes Murdered by the

British Police on 22 July 2005. A man of

peace gunned down in the name of war.”

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With regards, Uncle Monty.

**After Rosh Hashanah, 2oo8**

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