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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Emily Pennink

Chaotic court scenes as legal argument raged before Chris Kaba verdict

When a jury in the trial of firearms officer Sergeant Martyn Blake sent a note saying they had a verdict, an argument was still in full flow about what could be reported at the end of the trial.

Journalists had wanted to tell the full facts behind the fatal shooting of unarmed Chris Kaba – including his violent past – but were prevented by a raft of reporting restrictions during the Old Bailey trial.

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