An unarmed police officer has described how he ran towards the Plymouth gunman, Jake Davison, who had shot dead five people with a pump-action shotgun, determined to grab his attention and stop him hurting anyone else.
PC Zachary Printer told the inquest on Davison’s victims: “My role as a police officer is to protect the public as best I can. I had no choice. I had to confront him to protect the public. I had to become the focus of his attention.”