Monday, August 1, 2005   Police may pay $1.3m for terrorist mix-up BRITAIN's Metropolitan Police could pay up to $1.3 million in damages to the family of the innocent Brazilian who was shot dead in a bungled anti-terror chase in London, a newspaper reports. The Daily Mail reports that John Yates, deputy assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, is expected to make an initial payment to the family of electrician 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes. However, legal experts quoted by the newspaper believe the force could end up paying up to $1.3 million to the impoverished family. Police officials were quoted as saying the final figure will be "very substantial". In Sao Paulo, the Globonews web site says a British Government delegation arrived in Brazil on Sunday and would travel to Mr de Menezes' home town of Gonzaga, in south-east Brazil, to meet his parents to discuss compensation. Mr De Menezes was killed on July 22 after British police followed him from a London address they had been watching in connection with four failed bomb attacks the day before. Mistaking him for a suicide bomber, officers cornered the Brazilian inside a subway train and shot him eight times at close range, seven times in the head [Website: and one in the back]. He was buried in Gonzaga on Friday in a ceremony that attracted an estimated 10,000 people and was marked by anti-British protests. The arrival of the British delegation could not be confirmed with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. - AFP   David Irving, a Radical's Diary predicts compensation will have to be paid