Cop killer’s ‘hypermobility’ allowed him to shoot officer with hands cuffed behind his back

The gunman who shot dead Met Police sergeant Matt Ratana while his hands were cuffed behind his back told a court he has ‘hypermobility’ enabling him to bend and stretch easily. Louis De Zoysa, 25, retrieved a gun hidden in a holster under his armpit despite being handcuffed and blasted the New Zealand-born officer in the chest. Sgt Ratana, 54, was just two months away from retiring when he was killed in the Windmill Custody Centre in Croydon in the…

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