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Jermaine Baker shooting: Firearms officer will not be charged Jermaine Baker shooting: Firearms officer will not be charged
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A Met Police firearms officer will face no charges over the shooting of a man who was killed in a botched attempt to free a prisoner, prosecutors said.A Met Police firearms officer will face no charges over the shooting of a man who was killed in a botched attempt to free a prisoner, prosecutors said.
It comes after Jermaine Baker, 28, was killed by armed officers in London, in December 2015. Jermaine Baker was killed in London by armed officers in December 2015.
Mr Baker, who was with two men in a car near Wood Green Crown Court, had intended to help a man being held on remand escape from a prison van. He was with two other men in a car near Wood Green Crown Court who had intended to help spring an inmate from a prison van.
Firearms officers were deployed to disrupt the plan. Firearms officers were deployed to foil the plan and the 28-year-old was shot dead during the escape attempt.
"The officers reasonably believed that the men in the car were dangerous individuals, who were armed and prepared to use their weapons to achieve their criminal purpose," a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesman said. Mr Baker's family previously raised "serious concerns" over his death saying: "Our priority is to find out the truth and have anyone responsible for his death held to account."
"Having taken account of all the evidence provided by the IPCC [Independent Police Complaints Commission], the CPS has concluded that there is not a realistic prospect of conviction." Last year the family failed at the High Court to stop the officer who managed the operation from resigning from the Met.
"The prosecution could not prove to the required standard that [the officer] was being untruthful about his belief that Mr Baker was armed and reaching for a weapon to fire on the officers." A Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesman said: "The officers reasonably believed that the men in the car were dangerous individuals, who were armed and prepared to use their weapons to achieve their criminal purpose.
Mr Baker 'not armed' "Having taken account of all the evidence provided by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), the CPS has concluded that there is not a realistic prospect of conviction.
The CPS spokesman said the officer had fired one shot which hit and killed Mr Baker, from Tottenham. "The prosecution could not prove to the required standard that [the officer] was being untruthful about his belief that Mr Baker was armed and reaching for a weapon to fire [at] the officers."
"Following a thorough search it was found that Mr Baker was not armed," he continued. 'Professional crime'
"An imitation firearm was, however, recovered from a holdall in the rear foot well behind the driver's seat of the car." The officer had fired one shot which hit and killed Mr Baker, from Tottenham.
The IPCC said it was aware of the CPS decision and was waiting from a response from the Met Police. A search found Mr Baker was unarmed but an imitation firearm was found in a holdall in the rear foot well of the car, the CPS said.
At the time, Mr Baker and his accomplices were attempted to spring from a prison van Izzet Eren, who was being held on remand at HMP Wormwood Scrubs accused of gun offences, as he was en-route to a hearing at the court. The IPCC said it was aware of the CPS decision and was waiting for a response from the Met.
During the subsequent trial of one of Mr Baker's accomplices, Eren Hasyer, jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were told the prisoner hatched the escape plot from his cell using a smuggled mobile phone. At the time, Mr Baker and his accomplices were attempted to spring Izzet Eren, who was being held on remand at HMP Wormwood Scrubs accused of gun offences, from a prison van going to court.
Det Ch Supt Tom Manson, of the Met Police, said: "This was a bold, well planned and carefully thought out conspiracy that bears all the hallmarks of a professional crime." At the trial of one of Mr Baker's accomplices, Eren Hasyer, Woolwich Crown Court heard the prisoner hatched the escape plot from his cell using a smuggled mobile phone.
Two other men, Nathan Mason and Gokay Sogucakli, had admitted being part of the escape plot before Hasyer's trial began. Hasyer was found guilty of aiding the attempt to free Eren from the prison van.
Hasyer was found guilty in May last year, of aiding the attempt to free Eren from the prison van. Two other men, Nathan Mason and Gokay Sogucakli, had admitted being part of the plan before Hasyer's trial began.
Speaking after Hasyer's conviction, Det Ch Supt Tom Manson, of the Met, described the escape attmpmt as "a bold, well planned and carefully thought out conspiracy that bears all the hallmarks of a professional crime."