Relevant thread here for my you shouldn’t blindly trust what the police say initially after any death they have involvement in.
Relevant thread here for my you shouldn’t blindly trust what the police say initially after any death they have involvement in.
In a joint statement, the family of Chris Kaba said: “Our family, alongside the community who have supported us over the past seven months, have been consistent in our call for accountability.
This step forward is necessary and welcome. We urge the Crown Prosecution Service to do their bit and provide their advice to the IOPC urgently.
We very much hope that the CPS advise in favour of a prosecution and that the truth will emerge, without delay, through criminal proceedings. Our family and community cannot continue waiting for answers.
Chris was so loved by our family and all his friends. He had a bright future ahead of him before his life was cut short. We must see justice for Chris.”
In a joint statement, the family of Chris Kaba said: “We demand a charging decision without further delay. Throughout the last year there has been a lack of urgency.
Our family, alongside the community who have supported us over the past year, have been consistent in our call for accountability.
We believe that it was possible within six months of Chris being killed both for the IOPC to complete a well-resourced and effective criminal investigation and for the CPS to provide us with a charging decision.
It is almost unbelievable that a year on we still wait for answers. It is agonising not knowing the CPS decision.
It is unacceptable that we have been failed by the CPS, which has not completed its task urgently or in a timely fashion.
We very much hope that the CPS decide in days (not weeks or months) from now in favour of a prosecution and that the truth will emerge, without further delay, through criminal proceedings.
Our family and community cannot continue waiting for answers.
Chris was so loved by our family and all his friends. He had a bright future ahead of him before his life was cut short. We must see justice for Chris.”
Good news - but we've been down this road so often without it ending in any sort of justiceOfficer to be charged with murder.
If a seemingly ordinary everyday car suddenly blocked me ahead and another blocked me behind...Even if true, he wouldn't have known they were police as they were completely unmarked with no sirens or lights. If I was being chased by some random fucko in a car I'm pretty sure coming into contact would be considered either a reasonable defensive maneuver or inevitable consequence. And that would all be on the pursuer.
Yeh it might have been, but history suggests it would have still ended in kaba's deathIf a seemingly ordinary everyday car suddenly blocked me ahead and another blocked me behind...
... I'd probably think I was being jacked and try to smash my way out.
It wasn't a planned stop I hear.
The firearms unit was waiting to join behind the existing tail. Then plan a stop.
Instead the car came down the road they were waiting in so they jumped to stop it there and then. All very sudden. Without warning.
Had they stuck to the original plan the stop might have been calmer, more controlled and less disastrous.
Remanded in custody and headed to the Old Bailey.Officer to be charged with murder.
Remanded in custody and headed to the Old Bailey.
I didn’t realise he got remanded and then unremanded at the higher court. How long was he remanded for then? Twenty minutes?The Metropolitan Police officer accused of the murder of the Late Chris Kaba who is currently known only as NX121, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier today where a court order was put in place by District Judge Nina Tempia banning the publication of anything that would identify him, including any description. He was remanded in custody.
NX121 later appeared at the Old Bailey, where he was granted bail on the conditions that he lives at a named address, surrenders his passport and does not apply for international travel documents.
The Recorder of London, Mark Lucraft KC, told NX121 said that a plea and trial preparation hearing will be listed for 1 December 2023, with a possible trial date of 9 September 2024, just over two years after the Late Chris Kaba was shot dead.
A hearing will take place at the Old Bailey on 29 September 2023 to discuss the legal order that bans the identification of NX121.
You would if you were a police officer.If that was you or I, we would not even remotely get the same treatment.
If that was you or I, we would not even remotely get the same treatment.
You would if you were a police officer.
I didn’t realise he got remanded and then unremanded at the higher court. How long was he remanded for then? Twenty minutes?
If that was you or I, we would not even remotely get the same treatment.
He was shot in the head. That implies intent to kill, ergo murder.I'm not sure how the officer can be charged with murder. The officer may have been willfully negligent but did he intend to kill? that's what the trial will discover.
It's a shocking case and the police need to be held account but isn't a manslaughter conviction more likely?
Also if there was no opportunity to surrender and i don't suppose the cop shouted armed police or anything either.He was shot in the head. That implies intent to kill, ergo murder.
I would have thought manslaughter too. That was based on the story we were told.I'm not sure how the officer can be charged with murder. The officer may have been willfully negligent but did he intend to kill? that's what the trial will discover.
It's a shocking case and the police need to be held account but isn't a manslaughter conviction more likely?
I'm not sure how the officer can be charged with murder. The officer may have been willfully negligent but did he intend to kill? that's what the trial will discover.
Are we meant to be satisfied that NX121 Will face trial for murder? What about the rest of them?