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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Scotland Yard slammed after killing verdict AFP - Saturday, December 13 LONDON (AFP) - - British newspapers on Saturday blasted Scotland Yard over the 2005 killing of an innocent Brazilian man by anti-terror police and called for lessons to be learned from the inquest into the shooting. Jurors at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes recorded an "open verdict" Friday, meaning they rejected the chance to label it a "lawful killing" by London's Metropolitan Police. The De Menezes family said the inquest into his death had delivered a "damning critique" of the police. The Daily Mail said the jury "recorded the most damning verdict within its power against the Met" and its leadership. The inquest conclusions "have huge implications for the future of policing," it said. "It is a matter of grave concern -- and a damning indictment of the police's fallen standing in our society -- that the jury did not believe their account of events. "The time has come, surely to thoroughly review all aspects of the shoot to kill policy." The Sun said the verdict would be a "permanent stain" on Scotland Yard's record, urged the Met to learn lessons and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to make urgent changes. "Terrorism on our shores is here to stay. We all rely on the police to get it right," the top-selling daily said. But The Guardian warned that "no automatic consequence flows from an open verdict. The anxiety is that lessons will not be learned. "English justice is struggling to find a way of holding to account officers who kill in the course of their duty. "The armed police do tough work. But the public needs reassurance that there is a system in place that ensures innocent life is never lost lightly." Writing in The Times, one of the creators of the controversial shoot to kill policy for dealing with suicide bombers said the strategy had to remain. "Nothing has emerged that offers a realistic alternative for dealing with suicide terrorists," wrote Andy Hayman, a former assistant comissioner special operations in the Metropolitan Police. "Terrorists will be looking at how the police respond to the inquest verdict. They will exploit any weakness or loss of confidence. "The circumstances led to this mistake, not the strategy. "Policymakers will introduce changes but if we want the police to protect us from suicide bombers, they must have the option of shooting to kill." The Daily Telegraph said the verdict was "the correct one in the circumstances". The broadsheet said the firearms officers acted bravely and deserve to be praised rather than vilified, but "the same cannot be said for the senior officers involved in this calamity". The Independent asked on its front page "Did the police lie?" and inside attacked the "reckless, incompetent and lethal policing", saying the anger frustration of the De Menezes family was "perfectly justified". "The disturbing reality is that he could have been any one of us. "There is an increasing suspicion of the police among the public and the sense that they are not truly accountable is growing. "The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes and the disgraceful behaviour of the police in its wake" has merely alienated the public further, it said. De Menezes was shot seven times in the head at a London Underground train station on July 22, 2005, the day after a failed attempt to replicate the attacks of July 7 when four suicide bombers killed 52 people. Police had followed the 27-year-old electrician onto a train in the mistaken belief that he was failed suicide bomber Hussain Osman, who lived in the same block of flats. Over the course of the inquest, jurors heard more than seven weeks of evidence from around 100 witnesses, including the two officers who shot de Menezes at Stockwell station in south London. 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