THE HANDSTAND

august 2005

 

Victim No 57
Jean Charles de Menezes

 

He didn’t read The Sun.

 

He lived in a suspicious house.

 

He had an odd, dark skinned way of walking.

 

He was an electrician
( though they didn’t even know that ).

 

He knew about the Death Squads in Sao Paulo,
( but not the ones in London ).

 

He had a fear of being followed.

 

He was scared of guns.

 

At the first sign of trouble, he ran.

 

He heard screams of panic and terror.

 

He didn’t understand
how quickly we are sinking.

 

                                                 

 

                                                Richard Jones