Robert Jenrick says Martyn Blake is a 'hero'

Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick has said that firearms officer Martyn Blake who shot Chris Kaba is a "hero" who "should never have been prosecuted." Mr Blake was acquitted on Monday after shooting dead 24-year-old Mr Kaba, but has been forced to go into hiding after gangsters put a £10,000 bounty on his head.

When reporting restrictions were lifted after the case concluded, it emerged Mr Kaba was a “core member” of one of London’s most dangerous criminal gangs and was allegedly directly linked to shootings in the days before he was killed.

Report by Kennedyl.

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