URGENT APPEAL FROM MENEZES FAMILY TO SUPPORTERS
Dear Friends
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support you have given our family over the last 3 ½ years. We have been humbled by your support and on days like today, knowing that you are behind us, gives us the strength to carry on.
Today was an incredibly sad day for our family. We lost our appeal in the High Court and it was devastating. We cannot believe the jury will not get to decide if Jean was unlawfully killed or comment on the evidence in their own words.
Tomorrow all of Jean’s cousins who live in the UK and will be attending the final part of the inquest to hear the end of the Coroners summing up. We hope you can join us.
Join us on the last day of this inquest to fill the public gallery in a sign of solidarity with our family. Solidarity against injustice, against lies, against cover ups, against collusion, against a system which has repeatedly blocked, silenced and stopped all the avenues we have tried to pursue for justice.
We have been patient, we have been respectful, we have done everything they could have asked and we have got nothing. Another person could be shot and killed, another family could go through the horrendous ordeal we have gone through. Nothing has changed. Words cannot bring me to express how that feels after everything we have done.
But we still have faith in the jury to do the right thing. They have the power to do that.
I hope to see you at the inquest tomorrow. We will be holding a press conference after the jury have gone out to express our feelings at this time.
Vivien Figuerdo, Cousin of Jean Charles, on behalf of the Menezes Family
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support you have given our family over the last 3 ½ years. We have been humbled by your support and on days like today, knowing that you are behind us, gives us the strength to carry on.
Today was an incredibly sad day for our family. We lost our appeal in the High Court and it was devastating. We cannot believe the jury will not get to decide if Jean was unlawfully killed or comment on the evidence in their own words.
Tomorrow all of Jean’s cousins who live in the UK and will be attending the final part of the inquest to hear the end of the Coroners summing up. We hope you can join us.
Join us on the last day of this inquest to fill the public gallery in a sign of solidarity with our family. Solidarity against injustice, against lies, against cover ups, against collusion, against a system which has repeatedly blocked, silenced and stopped all the avenues we have tried to pursue for justice.
We have been patient, we have been respectful, we have done everything they could have asked and we have got nothing. Another person could be shot and killed, another family could go through the horrendous ordeal we have gone through. Nothing has changed. Words cannot bring me to express how that feels after everything we have done.
But we still have faith in the jury to do the right thing. They have the power to do that.
I hope to see you at the inquest tomorrow. We will be holding a press conference after the jury have gone out to express our feelings at this time.
Vivien Figuerdo, Cousin of Jean Charles, on behalf of the Menezes Family
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