The Daily Mail's Problem With The Rule of Law: Tuesday

On Tuesday September 27 Stephen Wright, the Daily Mail's 'Chief Crime Correspondent' wrote a Page 25 three-quarter page piece about the de Menezes case entitled, 'Police knew within five hours they had shot the wrong man'.

The first two paragraphs are as follows:

'Scotland Yard chiefs knew within five hours of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes that officers had killed an innocent man, the Daily Mail can reveal.

They established by mid-afternoon on the day of the shooting that the dead man was a Brazilian with no terrorist links'.

Pace the absence of terrorist links, one might have thought that the Mail would have found at least some space to record the full facts of the case, of which one of the most central is de Menezes' own criminality.