The Innocence of Jean Charles de Menezes League Cup

This will be a daily feature of this blog for as long as The She-Gnome remembers to bring home the 'Daily Mail'.

The position of this blog is that although Jean-Charles de Menezes was clearly not involved in terrorism, he is not to be considered an innocent unless and until evidence supporting his claim to residence in the UK at the time of his death is produced in the public domain.

Accordingly, I'm going to record, on a daily basis, the number of times the 'Daily Mail' and 'Daily Telegraph' describe him as innocent until the reality of his immigration status is clarified. At the end of the week, the newspaper with the most mentions will be awarded 'The Innocence of Jean-Charles de Menezes League Cup', for the most radical distortion of the truth of mass migration by a conservative newspaper.

Today, the 'Telegraph' has two mentions, both in a Page 2 article called 'Blair backs beleagured police chief' by Nicole Martin.

But it's the good old populist 'Mail' that's streets in front at this stage in the championship. Fresh from its daily grind of comparing holistic wholemeal diets and asking the great questions of the day, such as whether Nostradamus was an alien, the 'Mail' clocks a whopping four entries.

Two are by fresh-faced young newshound Ben Taylor, its 'Crime Correspondent', in a Page 6 polemic called 'Prescott takes a swipe at Sir Ian'.

The third is in its leading article, 'Time for silence, not soundbites'.

But the best is saved for the last. The last word goes to its veteran Aberdonian columnist Peter McKay, for describing de Menezes as 'innocent' in a thumbsucker called 'Does no one care what happened in that carriage?'