Louis De Zoysa, killer of Sgt Matt Ratana is sentenced to die in jail

The killer who shot dead Met Police sergeant Matt Ratana in a custody suite with an antique revolver his colleagues failed to find was ‘fascinated by guns’, a court heard. Louis De Zoysa, 26, said his ‘hypermobility’ allowed him to blast the 54-year-old even though his hands were cuffed behind his back. The New Zealand-born officer was just two months away from retiring when he was killed in the early hours of 25 September 2020. He was the first police…

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