Cop killer will have fitness to plea hearing

A judge will decide whether the man who shot dead Sergeant Matt Ratana in a custody suite is fit to enter a plea, the Old Bailey heard. Sgt Ratana, 54, died from a gunshot wound to the chest after handcuffed suspect Louis De Zoysa, 24, smuggled a revolver into the Windmill Custody Centre in Croydon, south London. The New Zealand-born officer was just two months away from retiring when he was gunned down in the early hours of 25 September…

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