AO,

Is that NWA (No White Allowed) as in the film Soul Plane or North West Airlines!

People throwing bricks off of motorway bridges is definitely not something to take lightly.

During June and July there is a section of motorway in Belfast which is about 1 mile long and has walls 10-15 metres high (they vary) and daily kids can been seen throwing bricks of cars. Luckily there is good CCTV and the police catch them 80% of the time. It has caused some nasty accidents as drivers just go into shock alot of the time and dont control the car especially if it is a direct wind screen hit! The fact that the central reservation is concrete and so are the 15m high walls means if you loose control there is a good chance you wont remain alive.

From what I have heard for the moment at least it will stay the same as the staff are currently the same as before. Unsure how this will change come the next issue onwards and I know I would prefer to have it on the same grade of paper as Airliner World as I find it makes easier to flick through etc. Heres hoping the Key Publishing Team can group enough FS knowledge to keep it going when the staff leave.

No dates on offical Street Date Trade Lists. Probably approx 3 months away.

Its now being reported he was on an expired student VISA and hence was running away through fear of Deportation.

It is heartening to see we have so many members who believe it’s alright to execute somebody because they look a bit dodgy, or because ‘there is a chance the named person was involved in some petty crime’. Wasn’t aware petty crime carried the death sentence in the UK.

Your twisting my words. This could very likely therefore be the reason he ran from the Police not the reason they shot him.

The reason they would let him catch a bus was to see if he would lead them to any of the suspects they were looking for. There was nothing to say he was going to the Tube Station until he got off and headed inside where they first attempted to stop him yet he ran off.

Andrewm.

The fact that he was Brazilian does not mean he couldn’t be Muslim. As far as I am aware from the news there has been no mention of Faith or Religion. It is now known that he was living in London for two years and working as an electrician. He understood English.

It was not a house he left, it was a block of flats. The block was under surveillance but apparently not his flat. The fact that he was wearing a thick jacket has been explained by saying that even in the height of the British summer it is still cold for Brazilians.

Why did he run? Did he not understand the commands from the Police? Was he afraid? Confused? Did he have something to hide? We’ll probably never know.

Sorry for not mentioned but i did know his family said he was Catholic from BBC News 24.

To quote the BBC:

“Mr Menezes had come out of a house in Tulse Hill, south London, which had been under police surveillance because of a suspected link to Thursday’s attempted bombings.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4711639.stm

I believe their information came directly from a Met Press Release. The house was in a Block of Flats.

In further to my post, it would appear there is a chance the named person was involved in some petty crime and thus the reason for him running. Cant say who my source is on this one but you wouldnt know them anyway. His family who are being quoted are in Brazil so would probably have no knowledge of his life here in detail and thus IF he was involved in petty crime they would not know about it as what son wants to tell his mother that!

They chased him down, kicked him down, held him down, and killed him with 5 shots to the head and torso.

No eye whitness has said they kicked him down. The comments from whitnesses are he half tripped on the edge of the tube train step and half was PUSHED down. The Officers from what has been said by whitnesses followed procedure in stopping a suspect and the only “issue” here that people are questioning is the shooting. For all we know he could have reached for his chest cause an officer to shoot him as he could have been reaching to detonate a bomb thus putting the Officers life and Public Safety in danger and making the shooting legal under the old procedures. Under the new procedures he is told to shoot to kill hence 5 bullets with probability these were all into the head thus a very short range as the head is a smaller target than the chest. They are told not to hit the chest as it could expload a potential bomb.