Cop killer faces life sentence for shooting dead sergeant in custody suite

The killer who shot dead Met Police sergeant Matt Ratana in a custody suite with an antique gun his colleagues failed to find when they searched him is facing a life sentence. Louis De Zoysa, 25, said his ‘hypermobility’ allowed him to blast the 54-year-old even though his hands were cuffed behind his back. The New Zealand-born officer was just two months away from retiring when he was killed in the early hours of 25 September 2020. He was the…

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