Chis Kaba died after he was shot once in the head through the windscreen of an Audi in Streatham, south London while he had both hands on the steering wheel, a court heard today.
Police officer Martyn Blake, 40, is facing trial for killing the 24-year-old on September 6, 2022. Blake, who in the case was formerly referred to as NX121, has denied the charge against him. His trial is being heard before Mr Justice Goss at the Old Bailey and is expected to go on for up to three weeks, The Mirror reports.
Mr Little KC told the court that for a firearms officer "to shoot and kill it should, understandably, be a remedy of last resort". But he said that "on careful analysis nothing Chris Kaba did in the seconds before he was shot justified this defendant’s decision to shoot". Mr Little KC said there was "no real or immediate threat to the life of anybody present at the scene and at the all-important point in time when the defendant fired the fatal shot". He said even if Mr Kaba had managed to escape, he would have been followed by a police helicopter in the air.
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