Four men have been convicted of plotting to blow up three Tube trains and a bus on 21 July 2005. The conspiracy, and the police operation it sparked, led to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead the following day.
The 21 July plotters failed to kill on the scale they had planned, but there was one person who unwittingly paid with his life in the wake of their attacks. Jean Charles de Menezes was gunned down by police officers hunting for Hussain Osman.
Osman's lawyer, Anthony Jennings QC, said during his trial that officers had mistaken the Brazilian electrician for his client, who had tried to blow up a Tube train at Shepherd's Bush.
Chasing a lead
Mr Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head as he boarded a train at Stockwell Tube station in south London. What is apparently not in doubt is that police were chasing up a lead from the rucksack Osman had abandoned in the train at Shepherd's Bush. In it they found a gym club membership card that gave an address in Scotia Road, Tulse Hill, south London.
