What we now know about the 13 seconds before Chris Kaba was shot

Footage from a police bodycam of the incident in south London in September 2022 in which Chris Kaba was shot dead, with a visual representation of where the vehicles and officers were at the time. Photograph: IOPC/PA

After the Met officer Martyn Blake was charged in 2023 with killing Chris Kaba, scores of his colleagues put down their guns in protest.

But the outrage was not limited to the rank and file: the home secretary, Suella Braverman, publicly condemned the decision, and was followed by the Met commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley. This, in turn, led to an emergency legal hearing to address concerns about prejudicing the coming trial.