Coroner may re-open inquest into death of gangster Chris Kaba

The police officer who shot dead gangster Chris Kaba may have been acting ‘unreasonably’ when he opened fire, a coroner heard. Kaba, 24, was trying to escape a police ‘hard stop’ by reversing his Audi 4×4 backwards and forwards when Martyn Blake killed him in Streatham Hill, southwest London, on the evening of 5 September 2022. The firearms officer, known by the cypher NX121, was a passenger in one of the BMWs parked on Kirkstall Gardens in Streatham Hill when…