Menezes family to seek compensation
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes will pursue a compensation package worth tens of thousands of pounds from Scotland Yard.
Campaigners dropped their four-year legal battle for justice last week after prosecutors refused to bring charges over the innocent Brazilian's death.
But as Coroner Sir Michael Wright prepared to release his recommendations following the inquest into the death of the 27-year-old electrician, his family said they would not ask for any "exorbitant" amounts from Met chiefs.
A member of the Justice4Jean campaign group said: "There has been speculation we would pursue figures in the region of £300,000 - it will be much less than that. Our lawyers are preparing proposals and we hope something will be settled shortly."
Family members conceded their relentless campaigning had brought them little closer to holding any individual to account as they reacted with fury to the approval by Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer of a decision not to prosecute any officers over the shooting.
Mr de Menezes' cousin Vivian Figuierdo said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) move was "deeply upsetting".
She said the family would turn their energy to lobbying Parliament on the laws surrounding police accountability.
During the inquest last year prosecutors found insufficient evidence to pursue the officers who pulled the trigger, or those who oversaw the operation, for manslaughter or gross negligence.
Mr de Menezes was shot dead by two marksmen after boarding a train at Stockwell Tube Station on July 22, 2005, after he was mistaken for suicide bomber Hussain Osman.
An inquest jury returned an open verdict last December after hearing three months of evidence. Sir Michael was criticised in December for ruling out unlawful killing as a possible verdict. The de Menezes family labelled the inquest a "whitewash" and launched a judicial appeal, which has now been abandoned, against the omission of an unlawful killing verdict.
