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Reply to Yasmin Khan

The following is a letter sent by Catherine Crawford, Chief Executive to the Authority to Yasmin Khan

Yasmin Khan
Justice4Jean Family Campaign
PO Box 273
London E7

24 July 2008

First of all I want to apologise on behalf of the MPA scrutiny panel to the de Menezes family for our failure to send them a copy of our Stockwell scrutiny report prior to the publication. The Chair and the members of the panel were unaware that the family and their lawyers had not been informed.

The report is about learning lessons – not about the sequence of events of 22 July 2005.

There was however no intention to exclude the de Menezes family and on behalf of my colleagues I wish to say we are sorry for any hurt this may have caused the family.

I give my personal assurances that any views they offer will be taken into account when the Authority considers further reports after the inquest.

Catherine Crawford
Chief Executive to the Authority 

The following pages on the MPA website are relevant:

• Stockwell: MPA latest news and background information
• Letter from Yasmin Khan