Streatham News

Metropolitan Police firearms officer Martyn Blake, 40, fatally shot the 24-year-old through the windscreen of an Audi Q8 in Streatham, south London, on September 5 2022.

The "devastated" family of Chris Kaba have said they will "continue fighting" after a Met Police marksman was cleared of murder earlier.

Martyn Blake shot the 24-year-old who was unarmed during a vehicle stop in Streatham in September of 2022.

A London police officer who fatally shot a Black man two years ago has been acquitted of murder.

Martyn Blake, a 40-year-old marksman with the Metropolitan Police, was cleared by a London jury on Monday in the death of Chris Kaba.

Lambeth Council has published its latest Air Quality Annual Status Report measuring the levels of harmful pollution in different parts of the borough over the last year.

The police marksman on trial for killing Chris Kaba was no “RoboCop” with the “nanosecond” reactions of a computer, a court has heard.

The police marksman on trial for killing Chris Kaba was no “RoboCop” with the “nanosecond” reactions of a computer, a court has heard.

The police marksman on trial for killing Chris Kaba was no “RoboCop” with the “nanosecond” reactions of a computer, a court has heard.

At Wednesday’s full council meeting, Green Party councillors’ questions went unanswered as they highlighted peoples’ concerns that so many residents’ and workers’ voices were not being heard across the borough.

Dennis James will be 39-years-old next month, but for him, the past year has not been a cause for celebration.

It is a year which has seen him become unexpectedly homeless, temporarily jobless and struggling to manage fatherhood to his seven and eight-year-old children.

Officer thought colleague hit by car in Kaba case

A firearms officer has told the Old Bailey she feared one of her colleagues had been hit by a car moments before Chris Kaba was fatally shot during a police stop.