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“The Met [Police] & Judge Jeremy Johnson are Trying to Rig the Filton 6 Retrial” by veteran anti-Zionist campaigner Tony Greenstein in his regular blogpost @uk_politics @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @BBC5Live@social.bbc @BBCRadio4@social.bbc @BBCNews@flipboard.com @AlJazeera@flipboard.com “The Jury Aren’t Being Allowed to Know the Context of the Defendant’s Actions, Their Right to Acquit on the Grounds of Conscience Nor that They will be Sentenced, if found Guilty of Criminal Damage, as Terrorists” https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-police-judge-jeremy-johnson-are.html #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Filton6 #Trial #Rig #PalestineAction #MetropolitanPolice #MSM #CorporateMedia #Lies #Johnson #Assange #MI6

The Guardian | London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe review – a compulsive tale of money, lies and avoidable tragedy by Ian Thomson A New Yorker writer traces the web of deceit that led a troubled teenager to his violent death Early one winter morning in November 2019, a surveillance camera at MI6’s headquarters on the Thames registered the silhouette of a young man on the balcony of an apartment complex on the opposite side of the river. It was dark but the fifth-floor balcony was brightly lit. The man seemed to hesitate a moment before he jumped. On the way down his hip struck the embankment wall and, possibly unconscious as he hit the water, he drowned. His body was found five hours later face down in riverbank mud, shirtless and in tracksuit bottoms. The autopsy revealed multiple injuries (including a broken jaw) that were caused either by the fall or by a prior assault; the pathologist was unable to determine which. The Metropolitan police identified the body as that of Zac Brettler, aged 19. He had spent the night he died with a gangland debt collector and drug trafficker named Verinder Sharma. Sharma, 55, said he owned the apartment and allowed Zac to stay with him in the complex rent-free. But phone records and CCTV showed that a third man, Akbar Shamji, had been present that night. A cryptocurrency and real estate trader who lived in Mayfair, Shamji denied any wrongdoing during police interrogation, and continues to maintain his innocence. He stated that Brettler was a compulsive liar who had pretended to be the son of a dead Russian oligarch in order to befriend him and his business associate Sharma. In a further bizarre imposture, Brettler used the alter-ego “Zac Ismailov” and even affected a Russian accent. Shamji could not be arrested on suspicion of murder since he was not in the apartment at the time of the fall. As for Sharma, the M16 camera provided proof that he had not pushed Brettler over the balcony. If these men did not cause the teenager’s death, who did? Continue reading... Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/07/london-falling-by-patrick-radden-keefe-review-a-compulsive-tale-of-money-lies-and-avoidable-tragedy #patrickraddenkeefe #mi6 #metropolitanpolice #mayfair #russianoligarch