EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Pope, factual drama aficionado and creator of Disney+’s Suspect, has criticized recent BBC and Channel 4 documentaries on the London bombings for showing “what was essentially the Metropolitan Police-approved version of what happened” to Jean Charles de Menezes.
The Oscar nominee said Suspect: The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, which launches April 30, gives a “no holds barred version” of the tragic death of the Brazilian electrician. Pope’s drama tells the story of events surrounding the killing of de Menezes by police officers on the London underground, who mistook him for a suspect in the failed bomb attack that took place two weeks after the devastating 7/7 bombings in July 2005.
While Pope noted that the BBC’s 7/7: The London Bombings and Channel 4’s Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube were “great pieces of work” and the BBC show had “astonishing material,” he said
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