The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician shot dead in cold blood by London police on a subway train in July 2005, walked out of his inquest today after the judge refused to permit the jury to find that he had been unlawfully killed.

The following interview with Patricia da Silva Armani Charles as the inquest opened recalls the murder of her cousin and how the British system has struggled to admit London’s own shoot-to-kill policy.