A Metropolitan police armed officer on trial for murder after shooting an unarmed suspect in the head has been acquitted.
Martyn Blake shot Chris Kaba in September 2022 on a residential street in Streatham, south London.
Kaba, 24, was driving an Audi that police believed was linked to a shooting the previous evening, which they followed then forced to stop.
The not guilty verdict will fuel anger that Blake was put on trial, a decision that infuriated his fellow Met firearms officers as well as the force’s commissioner, Mark Rowley.
The jury took two hours and 59 minutes to reach its verdict.
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