THE police watchdog came under fierce attack from campaigners for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes after an officer who admitted tampering with evidence was cleared of any wrongdoing.
The Special Branch Officer, who deleted text from a note describing what happened in the operations room at Scotland Yard on the day the Brazilian was shot dead, will not face sanction.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said the officer, known only as “Owen”, had acted naively but found no evidence of “deliberate deception”.
But the Justice4Jean campaign accused the watchdog of failing to hold officers to account.
Spokeswoman Yasmin Khan said: “It doesn’t matter if you are a policeman fiddling notes after a shooting or a politician fiddling expenses on the sly, no one should be above the law.
“This latest decision is one of a long line of IPCC decisions which have let every police officer involved in the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes off scot-free.”
