Police station gunman ‘will be fit to enter pleas’

The gunman who shot dead Police Sergeant Matt Ratana inside a custody suite may now be fit to enter pleas, 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 last year. De…