Probing| Sunday 24 July, 2005 |
 The station has become a shrine |
Stockwell tube has now become a shrine to Mr de Menezes with flowers and varied messages, ranging from support and sympathy, a show of strength from the community and as expected, SW8 silliness.
One such message from a group calling themselves Spliff This suggests that former Brixton Commander (and all round good guy) Brian Paddick 'planned' the shooting. Something to do with a little local difficulty in recent months with the Cannabis Festival being banned from Brockwell Park. You can just imagine the Spiff This conspiracy theory conversations in the early hours of the morning as Star Wars played out for umpteenth time.
There's the local meeting tonight to try and make sense of what's happened in Stockwell, and then hopefully we'll be back to 'normal' on Monday morning with the extremely friendly fruit and veg folk setting up their stall where the banners currently fly. I've not actually taken a tube journey since July 7th; nothing to do with being scared, just that I prefer to cycle. I may have to venture into town later in the week. Going underground at Stockwell for the first time will be a strange experience.
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