CCTV footage from close to the scene of a fatal shooting at a Derby police station has shed further light on the incident. Footage sent to Derbyshire Live from German Automotive’s security cameras does not show the incident itself but the audio gives a clearer picture of what happened on the morning Derby builder Marius Ciolac lost his life.
The two-minute clip starts at just a few seconds past 10am on the morning of Friday, October 7. Within 10 seconds police sirens can be heard ringing out, and, shortly afterwards, two police cars are seen racing down Ascot Drive, responding to reports of an individual with a knife in the station car park.
The sirens are hushed at around the 27 second mark before more sirens become audible again around 30 seconds later. More silence follows, with cars seen moving in and out of the car park at B&M at the top of the screen before the final confrontation between Mr Ciolac and armed officers in the police station car park.
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Then, around a minute and 20 seconds in, muffled shouting noises are heard and gradually become louder. A male voice shouts ‘drop the knife’ twice before five ‘bangs’ are heard at the 1.26-minute mark in the footage. The police have said that these five continuous bangs are that made by the stun grenade which was said to have been used prior to a firearm being discharged.
More unintelligible shouting is heard, before another bang seven seconds later. Police said in their report that Ciolac died from one gunshot wound to the abdomen. The incident is being investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, the police watchdog.
A pedestrian is seen running towards a car in the B&M car park and getting in. A few inaudible shouts ring out on the video before everything drops quieter again. Towards the end, cars are seen slowing on Ascot Drive before a taxi makes to turn around as police close the road.
Ian Essex, the managing director of German Automotive and owner of the footage, says that an employee offered the footage to an officer at the cordon but was shunned. He said: “One of our members of staff told the officer we had CCTV. The officer looked her up and down and said ‘why would that be useful?’
“It’s ridiculous. I don’t know why they didn’t want it. That’s what’s strange. The police have come in the past and asked me for footage when bikes have been stolen or if they think someone they’re after has driven down Ascot Drive. But they’ve not asked for any of this. They didn’t want anything to do with it.”
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