Evidence from Friday 10 October
Today, further evidence was given by ‘Pat’, the control room surveillance monitor, which further confirmed his understanding and recollection that Jean was never positively identified as the suspected suicide bomber.
In the afternoon, the court heard evidence from DCI Patrick Mellody, who was in charge of the intelligence gathering exercise overnight from 21 to 22 July 2005 and briefed Commander MacDowell.
Mellody said he was not aware that there were any other photos of the surveillance suspect Hussain Osman other than a gym card - until wedding photos found in the rucksack at Shepherds Bush were published in the newspapers a couple of weeks ago. He did not initiate any other enquiries about Osman at that time prior to the shooting.
Had he done so, it is possible that intelligence may have been able to access very good surveillance photos taken of Osman by Special Branch at a ‘training camp’ in the Lake District a year previously. Mellody said he considered that the photo card of Osman used by surveillance was an excellent source material for that operation. He was also asked whether he was aware that Osman had been reported to the Lambeth Borough Commander – as a suspect individual - at least two years prior to 21 July 2005. He was not…
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