I’m reasonably certain that Brazilians - and for that matter most sensible people - will be remarkably unconvinced by the brusque response from Scotland yard that Miranda’s detention was “legally and procedurally sound”

Not a terrorist and stopped under terror legislation?

Still, better off than Jean Charles de Menezes of whose killing the Met lied about, destroyed evidence about, and rewarded those responsible.

Trust the British? I’m reminded of why - allegedly - the sun never set on the British Empire: God himself wouldn’t trust an Englishman in the dark.