A CONSTABLE who prepared an intelligence profile on a Bolton father fatally shot by a police marksman said she never expected the document to be used to brief teams executing the armed operation.

Anthony Grainger, aged 36, was fatally wounded by a Greater Manchester Police firearms specialist in a planned swoop in a supermarket car park in Culcheth, Cheshire, in March, 2012.

PC Rachel Griffiths, who worked for the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) at the time, told a public inquiry into the father-of-three’s death that she had prepared the dossier for a different police operation in September, 2011.

The inquiry heard the profile was passed to the robbery unit the following February — with those officers told to update it themselves.

PC Griffiths said she would expect any document used to brief firearms officers to be “bespoke” and said: “I would expect the briefing to be done from a completely different document, not this one.

“That was September, 2011, this was now February, 2012, so it would be their responsibility to check any intelligence.”

The inquiry has heard that an Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation into the fatal shooting found the operation — Mr Grainger had been under surveillance — relied heavily on “out of date” intelligence in relation to him and that briefings to officers contained “inaccurate information”.

The Liverpool Crown Court inquiry into Mr Grainger’s death resumed on Tuesday after two weeks of evidence in closed session and is expected to run until April.