93 minutes ago Police officer who shot dead Chris Kaba has '£10k bounty on his head' after he's cleared of murder

Sergeant Martyn Blake, 40, was acquitted of murder after an Old Bailey trial

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99 minutes ago Home Secretary to update MPs on review into accountability of firearms officers in wake of Chris Kaba murder trial

Home Secretary to give Commons statement two days after police marksman Martyn Blake, 40, was cleared of the murder of Chris Kaba

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6 hours ago How arms cache plot masterminded by Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh mirrors a notorious con by career criminal and gangster John Haase

Liverpool gangster John Haase was a notorious underworld figure who graduated from armed robbery to orchestrating an international heroin racket which smuggled kilos of the drug from Turkey.

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8 hours ago Chris Kaba: Met Police cop 'has £10,000 bounty on his head' after he's cleared of murder

Sergeant Martyn Blake has been cleared of the murder of Chris Kaba, who died after being shot in the head by the police marksman in Streatham area of south London

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9 hours ago Met Police calls for misconduct hearing against firearms officer Martyn Blake to be abandoned after he was cleared of murder despite shooting dead Chris Kaba 

The police watchdog decided last year that the sergeant should face a separate gross misconduct hearing relating to his 'use of force' after the conclusion of the case.

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10 hours ago Met officer who shot Chris Kaba now has a 'price on his head': As gangster criminal past of 24

The police marksman who shot Chris Kaba dead now faces a lifetime under threat. Martyn Blake was this week cleared of murdering the 24-year-old during a police stop two years ago.

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10 hours ago 'Courts did their duty over Chris Kaba as police marksman faced murder charge'

Police marksman Martyn Blake was acquitted of murdering Chris Kaba, who was shot dead in London while sat in a car with his hands on the wheel

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12 hours ago Chris Kaba's final moments: Full timeline of events from minute the rapper shot man in a nightclub to police gunning him down just days later

When Chris Kaba's mother hugged her son one evening at her home in Peckham, southeast London, she did not know it would be the last time she ever saw the 24-year-old alive.

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14 hours ago DANIEL HANNAN: The officer who shot Chris Kaba should never have been on trial. But ever since George Floyd, these cases have been skewed by a hypersensitivity when it comes to race

The 'Justice for Chris Kaba' protesters had started from the presumption that a black man killed by the police must be a victim of racism, and reasoned backwards from there.

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