Nick Hardwick CBE
25 February 2025, Shilling Lecture Theatre
2025 saw the twentieth anniversary of the '7/7' London suicide bombings which killed 52 innocent people and the fatal shooting two weeks later of Jean Charles de Menezes by the Metropolitan Police, in the mistaken belief that he was a terrorist. There have already been two recent TV documentaries to mark the anniversary and more are scheduled.
Professor Nick Hardwick, who was responsible for the Independent Police Complaints Commission's investigation into the shooting of Jean Charles, uses his personal experience of this example and his work in other controversial parts of the criminal justice system to reflect on how we respond to some of the most painful and controversial tragedies when the state seems to have failed in its obligations to keep us safe.
