Jean Charles de Menezes' inquest turned to stage play
20 Jun 2009, 1612 Hrs

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London, Jun 20 The shooting of Brazilian national Jean Charles de Menezes by the police on a Tube train at Stockwell station has now been adapted into a screen play by a London fringe theatre.

The show, 'Stockwell: The Inquest into the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes', will be staged at the Landor Theatre in Clapham, which is close to where the 27-year-old had been shot dead after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.

The play, which opens on July 21, will explore the sequence of events that led to the shooting on July 22, 2005.

It will also feature testimony from the inquest from surveillance and firearms officers, senior police co-ordinators, civilian witnesses to the shooting and relatives of de Menezes.

Yasmin Khan, a spokeswoman for Justice For Jean, a campaign led by the de Menezes family, has consented to the show.

"Until we've seen it, we support any artist contribution to keeping the case in the public profile," the BBC quoted her as saying.

"As it's the four year anniversary, it's timely and fitting to go over the issues and anything that goes over that, we welcome," she added.

Kieron Barry and Sophie Lifschutz, the writing-director partnership behind 2007's 'Deepcut: Scenes From An Inquiry', have created the play.

The show will be running at the Landor Theatre for 16 performances until August 8. (ANI)

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