Mrs de Menezes, 63, and her older son, Giovani da Silva, 36, spent five weeks in the UK listening to key witnesses give evidence to the inquest.  She said that the "most difficult and painful" part was to hear the evidence of the marksmen who had pulled the trigger to kill her son, and condemned their apparently contradictory accounts.  "I didn't really believe everything that they said during the inquest," she said.  "One police officer said that Jean stood up, that he moved his arms about, the other one said that he advanced towards the officer.  "And then in the end a young woman who was sitting close to Jean told the inquest that Jean never got up. He was killed while he was sitting down - so she told us the truth."  Before flying back to Brazil at the start of November, Mrs de Menezes voiced their frustration with the Metropolitan Police's handling of the tragedy.  She had previously called for Sir Ian Blair, the Scotland Yard Commissioner, to resign over the shooting. However he quit during the inquest, to the surprise of the family, over other issues.  Mrs de Menezes has now singled out Ms Dick for particular blame.  "I think everything that they did was completely wrong and those mistakes should start from the commander," she said.  "I believe that she was not a very good commander. She made a series of mistakes - she did everything wrong, in my opinion.  "I think that she should resign, she should leave this post where she is in command of everything."  Mr de Menezes was born in the town of Gonzaga in the landlocked state of Minas Gerais, where his parents worked as labourers and ran a small subsistence farm.  After qualifying as an electrician in Sao Paulo, the Brazilian travelled to the UK in March 2002 to look for work despite his mother opposing the move.  Mrs de Menezes said: "He decided to come to London because he wanted to have a better life and he also wanted to help us out because we are not rich.  "He was already 18 and when a young man at this age decides to do what he wishes, his mother has no say in that. And that's what happened."  Mrs de Menezes movingly recalled her emotions in July 2005.  "I felt that my mind was going, it was very difficult for us to accept - it has been very difficult to accept up to this day" she said.  She added: "A mother never wants to live too far away from her children.  "When Jean said that he was coming over to London, I wasn't too happy about it but he told me that I shouldn't worry about him.  "Then after the July 7 bombings I told him to come back to Brazil.  "But he said, 'This is my own destiny, they are calling me to work and I have to work, I like to work'.  "He assured me that I shouldn't worry about him. He said, 'Mum, you don't have to worry about me, I'm fine'."
The mother of Jean Charles de Menezes has revealed how she begged her son to   return home to Brazil weeks before he was killed by police in Stockwell,   London.