Post Holiday Blues Streaming 25' - Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes - Miniseries

Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is a British miniseries based on the 2005 killing of a Brazilian electrician by London police. 

Written by Jeff Pope, starring Edison Alcaide, Daniel Mays, Russell Tovey, Laura Aikman, Alex Jennings, Conleth Hill, Emily Mortimer & Max Beesley. 

The four episodes landed on Disney+ on late April. June - September is my TV catch up peroid, so expect some serious catch up posts for the next few months.

Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes documents the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes by officers of the Metropolitan Police Service at Stockwell station on the London Underground after he was wrongly deemed to be one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts.

This is not the first series based on Jean Charles de Menezes.

Back in 2006, the Panorama episode "Stockwell – Countdown to Killing" was shown on BBC One. The shooting was the subject of an hour-long factual drama titled Stockwell, first broadcast in 2009 in the UK on ITV1.

More recently in 2024, a two-part documentary titled Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube, first broadcast on Channel 4, seeks to set the shooting in the context of the fear-filled atmosphere in London in July 2005 and includes an interview with the police officer who killed Menezes.

While Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio has said the series, which starts with armed police shooting an unarmed man, was inspired by the shooting of Meneze.

This was a shocking event in history. The series was a full on watch. However the performances were incredible and this is a story that needs telling. All four episodes stream on Disney+ now.