Telegraph | News

Telegraph | News: "According to the files, said to be from the independent inquiry into the shooting at Stockwell station on July 22, Mr de Menezes died because of misjudgments, errors and bad decisions even more grave than first thought.

Far from acting suspiciously, the electrician had behaved like any other commuter that day. Wearing only a denim jacket, he had walked calmly through the barriers - even pausing to pick up a free newspaper.

He did run, but only a few yards to catch a train which had pulled into the platform. What is more, the report reveals he had been grabbed and held by an officer just seconds before being shot. It appears that he was completely oblivious to the armed officers following him before he was restrained.

To understand how this mistake was made, the documents take the scene back to earlier that morning when a surveillance unit backed up by armed officers from SO19, the firearms unit, homed in on flats in Scotia Road, Tulse Hill, south London, where the victim lived.

They believed the block contained one or more of the would-be bombers who had tried to blow up three Tube trains and a London bus less than 24 hours before.

At around 9.30am Mr de Menezes left the block and went to a nearby bus stop. Police saw him and thought he was Hussain Osman, one of the suspected terrorists.

But the documents revealed that no positive identification was ever made because an officer was 'relieving himself' at the time Mr de Menezes left the building.

The officer said: 'As he walked out of my line of vision I checked the photographs and transmitted that it would be worth someone else having a look. I should point out that as I observed this male exited the block I was in the process of relieving myself.

'At this time I was not able to transmit my observations and switch on the video camera at the same time. There is therefore no video footage of this male.'

But by the time he got to the bus stop, the officers had posit"