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Sgt Martyn Blake, 41, an officer in the specialist firearms unit MO19, shot Mr Kaba in the head after he tried to ram his way out of a police vehicle stop in Streatham on 5 September 2022.

Police officers did not know who was driving the Audi 24-year-old Mr Kaba was in but it had been used as a getaway car in another shooting in south London the day before, Sgt Blake's murder trial heard.

Dozens of Metropolitan Police armed officers downed tools in protest when Sgt Blake was charged with murder and the Army was put on standby.

During the trial, one of his fellow firearms officers told the Old Bailey he would have taken a shot if Sgt Blake had not, and another said he was "fractions of a second" away from doing the same.

Sgt Blake was publicly named during his trial, as is standard practice, but restrictions remain in place banning the publication of his address or any description or image of him.