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Chandler's Ford robbers lawfully shot dead by Metropolitan Police | Chandler's Ford robbers lawfully shot dead by Metropolitan Police |
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Two men shot dead by police as they robbed a security guard outside a bank were killed lawfully, an inquest jury has recorded. | Two men shot dead by police as they robbed a security guard outside a bank were killed lawfully, an inquest jury has recorded. |
Mark Nunes, 35, and Andrew Markland, 36, of London, were shot in 2007 during the raid in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire. | Mark Nunes, 35, and Andrew Markland, 36, of London, were shot in 2007 during the raid in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire. |
Nunes was shot first when he aimed a 9mm pistol at the guard. | |
The Metropolitan Police were lying in wait for the pair but had not arrested them earlier due to a lack of evidence, the inquest in Winchester heard. | |
Nunes was the leader of a gang whose other members were later convicted of carrying out similar raids across southern England. | |
Officers had been investigating them for a year and had received intelligence Nunes was planning to hold up a cash delivery van in the town. | |
During the six-week hearing, jurors saw CCTV footage of the moment a rifleman from the Met's Flying Squad positioned in overlooking flats shot Nunes as he pointed the gun at the G4S security guard's head. | |
Markland then appeared to pick up Nunes's gun before being shot by another police marksman. | |
Markland was pronounced dead at the scene while Nunes died later that morning in hospital. | |
Central Hampshire coroner Graham Short had told jurors the inquest would examine the "operational and tactical decisions that preceded those events". | |
The police commander on the ground that day, Det Ch Insp Terry Wilson, told the hearing Nunes had taken officers "by surprise" when he pulled out a gun. | |
Post-mortem examinations found Nunes died from a high-velocity gunshot wound to the chest which exited through the neck and Markland died from two separate high-velocity gunshot wounds to the chest. |