‘Chris Kaba posed an imminent threat to my colleagues’

Met Police firearms officer Martyn Blake claimed Chris Kaba was using his car as a weapon and posing an ‘imminent threat’ to his colleagues when he shot him dead, a court heard. Kaba, 24, was trying to escape a police ‘hard stop’ when 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…