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Evening Standard
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Sam Hall

Marksman who fatally shot man faced ‘decade of legal madness’ – Sir Mark Rowley

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said a firearms officer who fatally shot a man during a foiled prison break had endured a “decade of legal madness”, after his misconduct hearing was discontinued.

The officer, known only as W80, shot Jermaine Baker as police stopped a plot to snatch two prisoners from a van near Wood Green Crown Court in December 2015.

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