His cousin, Patricia da Silva, tells the long-running undercover policing inquiry the Met’s actions were “invasive and unnecessary”.

The cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot dead by police who mistook him for a terror suspect, has said undercover officers “invaded my privacy” when they spied on her campaign for justice.

Patricia da Silva was sharing a flat with Mr de Menezes in south London when the 27-year-old was killed at Stockwell Tube station, in London, two weeks after the 7/7 terror attacks, on 22 July 2005.

She told the long-running undercover policing inquiry she felt “anger and pain” over lies and misinformation put out by police after the shooting, including that her cousin was acting suspiciously and had jumped a barrier, refusing to stop.

Ms da Silva said she believed the investigation into his death was influenced by racism “because even at the time they compared my cousin to the terrorist they were looking for”.

Mr de Menezes was shot seven times in the head the day after police mistakenly identified him as one of the suspects for the failed 21 July 2005 bombings after finding an address written on a gym membership in one of the unexploded bags used by the bombers.

His cousin became tearful when she recalled setting up the Justice for Jean campaign, which she was later “surprised” to learn had its own Special Branch reference number.

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