Police marksman cleared of murdering Chris Kaba

The Met Police marksman who shot Chris Kaba has been cleared of murder after a jury accepted he was trying to save the lives of his fellow officers. Kaba, 24, was trying to escape a police ‘hard stop’ by reversing his Audi 4×4 backwards and forwards when Martyn Blake, 40, opened fire in Streatham Hill, southwest London, on the evening of 5 September 2022. Blake’s collegues told the jury they were terrified before he fired a single shot through the…