Met police officer who shot Chris Kaba acquitted of murder

Martyn Blake shot Kaba, who was unarmed, in 2022, saying he feared Kaba would use car to kill officers

• What we now know about the 13 seconds before Chris Kaba was shot

A Metropolitan police firearms officer who shot an unarmed suspect in the head has been acquitted of murder.

Sergeant Martyn Blake shot Chris Kaba in September 2022 after stopping him on a residential street in Streatham, south London. Kaba, 24, was being followed while driving an Audi that police believed was linked to a firearms incident the previous evening.