Cop who shot Chris Kaba ‘thought he was about to kill a colleague’

The firearms officer who shot Chris Kaba told a court: ‘I thought my colleagues were about to die.’ Martyn Blake, 40, said he was ‘filled with dread’ in the seconds before he pulled the trigger. Mr Kaba, 24, was trying to escape when the Met Police officer opened fire in Streatham Hill, southwest London, on the evening of 5 September 2022. Blake is accused of murder after he fired a single shot through the windscreen of Mr Kaba’s Audi which…