Cops were warned of ‘new threats to life’ the day before Chris Kaba was shot

Police were briefed about ‘new threats to life’ and a gang ‘ride-out’ the day before a Met firearms officer shot Chris Kaba dead, a court heard. Mr Kaba, 24, was trying to escape when Martyn Blake, 40, opened fire in Streatham Hill, southwest London, on the evening of 5 September 2022. Blake is accused of murder after he fired a single shot through the windscreen of Mr Kaba’s Audi which had been followed and surrounded by police vehicles. The Audi…