LONDON, Aug 19: The person responsible for the leaking of documents about the police shooting of Brazilian Jean-Charles De Menezes has been suspended, BBC and Sky news said Thursday.

The person was not identified but was said to be a member of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which is investigating the shooting of De Menezes on July 22, after he was wrongfully suspected of being a suicide bomber.

The commission has neither confirmed nor denied the reports that one of its members was fired.

The leaked documents, including witness statements and photographs, suggested that a series of errors led to the shooting of the 27-year-old Brazilian.

He was shot eight times and killed in a south London subway station one day after a failed attempt to repeat the London bombings of July 7, in which 56 people including four apparent suicide bombers were killed.

The leak has led to pressure on the Metropolitan Police, whose chief, Ian Blair, said Thursday there was no attempt to cover up the killing.—AFP