A police watchdog gave its report on the fatal shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes to prosecutors today.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will now decide whether any of the officers involved in his death at Stockwell Tube Station will face criminal charges.

The 27-year-old electrician was shot seven times in the head by anti-terror police who mistook him for a suicide bomber on July 22, the day after the failed London bombings.

If the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found there was any criminality, its report will include a list of possible charges linked to specific officers. Criminality requires a lower threshold than pressing charges.

The CPS confirmed in a statement that a "senior lawyer" from its special crime devision will consider the report.

Scotland Yard has received a copy of the document, along with the Metropolitan Police Authority, which oversees the force, and the Inner South London coroner John Sampson, who will hold the ultimate inquest into Mr de Menezes's death.

Given the "grave and exceptional circumstances'', the IPCC said it also decided to send the report to Home Secretary Charles Clark.

Mr de Menezes's family was given notice that the IPCC's inquiry is complete, but will not see its findings. They have repeatedly called for a public probe into the matter and for Met chief Sir Ian Blair to resign.

The document will only be published once a possible criminal trial, any appeals and the inquest have been completed, which could take years.

About 600 statements were taken in the course of the investigation, including those of 30 eye witnesses.

Last year leaked papers from the inquiry indicated that grave blunders have been made in the run-up to the shooting of Mr de Menezes, whose only mistake was to leave a building under surveillance. He did not run from police, but strolled into the station, the documents suggested.

A second IPCC inquiry, into Sir Ian's conduct in the wake of the shooting, still continues.