Daily Record

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced that police firearms officers who kill in the line of duty will not be named unless they are convicted. In a statement to the Commons, Cooper said there will be "a presumption" against publicly identifying officers facing criminal proceedings.

If the rules had been in place when Chris Kaba was shot dead, the name of police marksman Martyn Blake would never have been released. Mr Blake was cleared of murder by a jury on Monday.

A police driver feared his colleague was going to be run over just before Chris Kaba was shot by a Met marksman, a court has heard.

The officer, known only by the cypher AY3, described "a very dramatic scene" unfolding as he gave evidence at the Old Bailey on Monday.

Fellow armed officer Martyn Blake, 40, is on trial for the murder of Mr Kaba in Streatham, south-east London on September 5 2022.

Mr Kaba, 24, was shot once through the windscreen of the Audi that he was driving as he tried to smash between a marked police patrol car and a parked car next to it.

The police marksman who killed Chris Kaba was "calm and collected" and had "sound" judgment, according to a senior colleague.

On Thursday, a Tactical Firearms Commander (TFC), referred to as HA62, gave evidence in the trial of Martyn Blake for the murder of 24-year-old Mr Kaba on September 5 2022.

He had been on duty that night and had declared a firearms incident and ordered the "enforced stop with extraction" after a suspect Audi that Mr Kaba had been driving was identified in south London.

An armed cop accused of gunning down a man through a car has gone on trial accused of his murder.

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.

A Brit tycoon's co-defendant, who stood trial alongside him in a US fraud case, has died after being hit by a car at the weekend. Mike Lynch, the tech millionaire who remains missing after a superyacht sinking in Palermo, stood aside tragic Stephen Chamberlain in court.

Sadly Chamberlain was critically injured in a collision in Cambridgeshire on Saturday morning and rushed to hospital to be treated. It has since been confirmed that he has died.

Meanwhile Lynch is one of seven feared dead as the search for the unaccounted-for passengers on the plush yacht continues.

Abdul Ezedi has been named as the man officers want to speak to in connection with incident.