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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Charlotte McLaughlin

HISTORICAL FACTS: Emily mortimer to play cressida dick in show about jean charles de menezes death - Caught on Camera

Actress Emily Mortimer is to star in a new drama about the Metropolitan Police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was wrongly suspected of being a terrorist after the 7/7 London bombings (Matt Crossick/PA) - (PA Wire)

Actress Emily Mortimer is to play Dame Cressida Dick before she became the head of the Metropolitan Police, in a new drama about the shooting of a Brazilian man wrongly suspected of being a terrorist after the 7/7 London bombings.

Jean Charles de Menezes was killed a fortnight after suicide bombers exploded devices on three Tube lines and a London bus on July 7 2005, killing 52 people.

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