Chris Kaba was not a suspect before being fatally shot by police, hears inquest

Chris Kaba's cousin Jefferson Bosela reads a statement outside the coroner’s court, alongside Kaba’s mother, Helen Lumuanganu. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA

Chris Kaba was not a suspect and was being followed by a police car without lights or sirens before he was shot dead by a firearms officer, an inquest into his death has been told.

The unarmed father-to-be was killed by a single shot to the head fired by an officer referred to only as NX121, in a residential road in Streatham on 5 September, Southwark coroner’s court heard on Tuesday morning.