The key to Roman Polanski's libel action against Vanity Fair was "Roman's law of morality", the High Court has been told. * A major police operation was reported at Harrow Road, near Paddington, where bomb disposal officers were deployed an address in West Kilburn. A resident of Portnall Road, just off Harrow Road, told the BBC: "From my windown I can see 20 doors down what looks like a bomb disposal type vehicle, it's armoured and there are several armed officers around it. People then started to run and I heard two or three more bangs like people shooting." A large area around Stockwell Tube Station, an interchange for the Northern and Victoria lines in south London, was cordoned off and traffic approaching the area ground to a halt. Christopher Scaglione, 35, a fashion designer, was also on a Victoria Line tube train shortly before the incident. He said: "The train didn't stop at Vauxhall and so I got out at Stockwell. I was just on my way out when I heard at first a little bang, not like a bomb more like a gun, and then people were shouting.
He saw about 20 police officers, some of them armed, rushing into the station before a man jumped over the barriers with police giving chase. He said: "There were at least 20 of them (officers) and they were carrying big black guns. "The next thing I saw was this guy jump over the barriers and the police officers were chasing after him and everyone was just shouting 'get out, get out"'. "Somebody in plain clothes who I thought was a civilian cop had his gun out and started shooting and told us to get out." Chris Wells, a 28-year-old company manager, said he was travelling on the Victoria Line towards Vauxhall when he left the train at Stockwell. He's dead, five shots, he's dead." He reported the man did not seem to be carrying a weapon or wearing a rucksack. Passenger Briony Coetsee, 23, said: "We were on the Tube when we suddenly heard someone say 'get out, get out' and then we heard gunshots - someone was shooting.
He said: "One of the police officers was holding a black automatic pistol in his left hand They held it down to him and unloaded five shots into him I saw it. Passenger Mark Whitby, speaking to BBC News 24, reported the man was shot five times at close range after he had jumped on a train at Stockwell. He had been sitting on the train reading his paper as it was stationary with its doors open in Stockwell station when he heard people shouting "get down, get down!" He said that Asian man ran on to the train pursued by three plainclothes police officers He said the man tripped and was also pushed to the floor. Earlier, passengers evacuated from Stockwell station during this morning's shooting described seeing armed police chasing a suspect before opening fire. The man, wearing a top with New York on it in large letters, was said to have boarded a train at Stockwell, but police said he was not the same man as the one shot at that station today. They included one of a running man at Oval station, scene of one of yesterday's attacks.
