EXCLUSIVE I'm a Met Police marksman. The public are ungrateful for my protection and Martyn Blake was brave for shooting Chris Kaba READ MORE: Former Met marksman: Blake trial was 'a farce from start to finish' LISTEN: The Trial of Officer Blake – available wherever you get your podcasts now By MailOnline Reporter Published: 13:33 BST, 26 October 2024 | Updated: 13:36 BST, 26 October 2024 e-mail 45 View comments To the jury in Martyn Blake 's murder trial, Chris Kaba was described as an excited father-to-be and building site worker shot dead after being cornered by armed police. In fact he was a 'core member' of London 's notorious '67' gang, directly linked to two gun attacks in six days and driving a luxury Audi spotted at the scene of a shooting 24 hours before he died.
Mr Kaba's parents insist that their son had been a 'good boy' denied justice at the Old Bailey on Monday, where protests took place afterwards. Fellow rapper Wretch 32 has claimed Kaba was 'assassinated' and 'executed' by an officer, adding that the police are 'good at villainising a person'. While members of South London's black communities have said people should look beyond his criminal past and that the decision to clear Sgt Blake in just three hours has left them traumatised, insisting it was another racist killing in the capital.
But one of Sgt Blake's colleagues told MailOnline today that he would have taken exactly the same decision to shoot 23-year-old Kaba in September 2022. 'It is exceptionally.
