police chief defiant after mistaken tube shooting

Supt Indt Insp Riley was defiant in the face of criticism from civil rights groups today. this has stemmed from the bungled shooting to death of Belgian busker Antoine De Trefor, after mistaking the 31 year old busker for a highly motivated splinter cell operative - police reports follow:





"the team were alerted to a possible terror suspect in tavistock tube station, the officers quickly identified the man who had been hanging around the station for hours. he was sat on a stool holding what could have either been a guitar or a semi automatic AK47 assault rifle. his large backpack either contained unwashed clothes or Semtex."

artists impression of "buskers" guitar

"on approaching the suspect he began to play the assault rifle in a untuned fashion which soon escalated to a full scale rendition of coldplay's fix you- we shot him repeatedly in the face and torso, but mainly the face."

"on inspection we released that the suspect was neither a terrorist or Chris martin of coldplay, we were gutted".





"cold blooded murder or innocent mistake is not the issue at this point in time", said police chief john Scott, "the real issue is that both terrorists and Chris martin are still out the plotting".