Met Officer Cleared of Murdering Gangster Chris Kaba Faces Sack for “Gross Misconduct”
Sgt Martyn Blake, the armed Metropolitan police officer who was cleared of murdering violent gangster Chris Kaba, now faces a gross misconduct disciplinary over the shooting and could be sacked. The Telegraph has the story.
Sgt Martyn Blake shot dead Chris Kaba in Streatham in September 2022 after he drove at officers in an attempt to smash his way out of a police roadblock.
The highly trained firearms specialist has been told he must appear before a hearing accused of gross misconduct following a review of the case by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). The Telegraph understands that the IOPC will announce its decision on Wednesday.
Sgt Blake opened fire to protect his colleagues, but he was charged with murder following an IOPC investigation and went on trial at the Old Bailey in October last year.
However, jurors took just three hours to find him not guilty of the charge, and Scotland Yard immediately reinstated him.
Following his acquittal, Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Commissioner, said he feared charging the police in such situations was “crushing the spirit of good officers” and was making London less safe.
He said the 40-year-old officer had made huge personal and professional sacrifices but had acted with professionalism and dignity throughout.
But despite being completely exonerated in the criminal courts, Sgt Blake now faces the prospect of losing his livelihood over the shooting.
This is because disciplinary offences are based on the civil test, which states that an honest but mistaken belief must also be “reasonable”.
He will now have to appear before a misconduct panel to determine his future.
Responding to the announcement, Mark Williams, Chief Executive of the Police Firearms Officers’ Association, said: “Today’s decision by the IOPC recommending Martyn Blake faces a misconduct board is a hammer blow to him, his family and armed policing in general.
“After unanimously being found not guilty by an Old Bailey jury it seems completely wrong he now has to endure a misconduct board where he could potentially lose his job.
“As well as the welfare issues this causes him, the morale of men and women who carry firearms to protect us will be damaged once again.”
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Assuming this goes well, too (not certain because this time, he’ll be judged by people connected to his accusers), they’ll probably charge him with gross misuse of public funds next because it hasn’t been established that spending bullets the public had to pay for by shooting them at a gangster trying to escape from the police using his car as weapon was actually a sensible use of public funds. And after that, probably for creating a public noise nuisance by discharging a pistol in the dead of the night for no real reason. And so on.
Indeed. The punishment is in the process as much as it is in any eventual sanction.
It does make you wonder how this would’ve went down had the officer been black ( or BAME ) and the perp white, or even if the officer had been the same ethnicity as Kaba. I think Blake is being put through the wringer based on the demographics involved here. And who do we expect will make up this misconduct panel, then? I’m sure it’ll be very ‘diverse’. It doesn’t matter that Kaba was a known criminal and that black people are twice as likely to be arrested than whites.* They’ll always, along with Muslims, be able to rely on the race card being played. ‘Perma-victims vs perma-oppressors’ is how this game goes, and you can’t rely on your white, racist, woketard bosses to have your back, either. They love a bit of ‘diversity’ and ‘positive discrimination;
* https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/policing/number-of-arrests/latest/
Well Mogs, I think to ask the question is to answer it!
The corruption, born from the ideology, runs very deep. As we’ve seen with the Lawfare now enacted by the left at every opportunity, there is no common sense or logic, or nuance involved. Just pursue your fantasy enemy for ever and a day until you destroy them.
Let’s see who on the IOPC made this decision, what their political affiliations look like and what colour/race/religion they are.
But that “poor young man” lost his life and that is a tragedy particularly for his family and loved ones, is all that is important and somebody should pay.
We are still appeasing the victimology industry.
FFS !
Rowley, the little khant and Kneel are behind this. Absolutely determined to cause upset and strife.
Bloody politicians and nutters – same thing I suppose – challenging a Supreme Court decision on what is a woman, and the Judges agreed with God thank goodness, we now have the Met deciding that a unanimous jury verdict was incorrect and Sergeant Blake must be tried again in order to arrive at the correct verdict.
I cannot imagine how Sergeant Blake and his family are coping with this, it must be horrific.
Rowley should hang his head in shame and between him, the little khant and Kneel this could and should have been stopped. It’s not as if they haven’t interfered before is it Kneel?
Peter Lynch? Rudikabana? Lucy Connolly and plenty others.
Almost but not quite unbelievable.
Why would any member of the police risk being pilloried like this, am surprised, if they unionised they should all hand in weapons and refuse to be ‘armed’ officers, imagine the reaction if this happened to a member of the Royal protection squad, or 2TK’s detail….
I agree. They should refuse to bear arms.
That’s exactly what they should do.
It’s the ideology of clown-world that it’s not criminals who are the cause of crime, but society. Society means the collective activities of the law-abiding citizens. Therefore, according to the clown-worlders, it’s the law-abiding citizens who are the cause of crime, while at the same time the criminals are designated the victims. This is reason the clown-worlders think that gangsters should be allowed to ply their “trade” unhindered.
Just like those British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland persecuted through the courts for decades, a Met Police firearms officer, already exonerated by public jury, now gets persecuted by a disciplinary panel comprising…
…Legally qualified chair/adviser
…Independent panel member with no relationship to the Met
…Serving senior Met officer
In other words, at least two worthies with no experience of putting their lives on the line in pursuit of an armed criminal, and a third worthy who may have long-forgotten, assuming he, she or they ever knew in the first place.
Seeing how the government treats soldiers and policemen, who on earth would want to join these organizations?
You risk your life, you make a split second decision and then the state will hang you out to dry.
In a similar way, knowing that the police are biased, ignoring real crime while persecuting people for tweets, why should any of us help them? “Policing by consent”, yeah right. Go away, guys, paint your nails, fall on your knees.
Seems PC Prior, “the elected Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation” who was “was suspended by his own organisation for doing his job and speaking out” (H/T FSU) was right. Police officers have every reason to be afraid of not following the woke agenda.
He should definitely sue for having his identity revealed ahead of the trial.
By the way, this should have been in the news roundup today:
No criminal charges will be brought against a professional ice hockey player arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of Adam Johnson.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2wkl17d7o
I watched the clip of that ice hockey thing a lot. It looked like manslaughter to me. He executed what looked like a high Kung Fu kick to the bloke’s neck. Takes some doing, can’t see how it wasn’t a deliberate attempt to harm.
It’s telling that the BBC doesn’t include a picture of the other guy involved in this incident, however, a simple Google search for his name will reveal that he looks exactly as one would have expected. Imagine the roles had been reverted. In this case, they had put the white guy into a prison cell and thrown away the key.
I did put photos of both victim and criminal in my DS comment yesterday under the Mark Carney election victory article for the 29th April, if you’d like to have a look.
Adam Johnson’s family said that even a neck guard would not have saved him from the sheer force of that kung-fu kick to his throat, that not only severed his neck artery but also his windpipe, nearly decapitating him in front of his fiancee.
It’s a horrific miscarriage of justice, and an everlasting stain on the reputation of the Crown Prosecution Service, who appear to be answerable to nobody.
You’re right! I did comment about this shocking case yesterday in the Daily Sceptic, 29th April, including photos of the Ethnic European American victim Adam Johnson and his fiancee, and the Ethnic African Canadian Throat-Slasher Matt Petgrave, if you look at the comments under yesterday’s Mark Carney election win (because Matt Petgrave the Throat-Slasher is a Canadian citizen).
The crucial point is that people online are assuming that he was declared “Not Guilty”, but that is false. It was yet another example of the police spending months and even years painstakingly gathering evidence, only to have the Corrupt Crown Prosecution Service throw it all out on a whim (in this case, a politically motivated whim).
But the police still get blamed for this appalling failure of justice, even though they tried their best, and kept the criminal in Britain while they investigated it for a year and a half. It wasn’t their fault that the evil, dead-eyed b*stard got away with a calculated, deliberate racist murder scot free.
If the races had been reversed, there would have been riots in the streets.
Met Police working hard on disincentives to becoming a firearms officer.
You live by the sword you die by the sword. Not these days though. You can live by the sword all you want and anyone who tries to apprehend you will be suitably admonished. It is a fine thing when your own judiciary boosts the confidence of psychopaths. The sicker the better baby don’t hold back.
The Thin Blue Lne is under attack on at least two fronts: their trust among the public is diminshed as they are seen as agents of two-tier justice as, acting under orders, they pursue ludicrous cases such as the Alison Pearson affair or the whatsapp couple. And they face persecution from their own force when they are pursed with criminal charges and disciplinary complaints. Almost as if they want to make the job as unattractive as possible…
The Communist pigs who have taken this country over must be dealt with. The Great Civil War will cleanse us.
It also seems that blacks are protected regardless of what they do to us. Thisnis stoking up the firewood of a violent civil war. People are remember names
Sgt Blake is being treated the same way former soldiers who followed Orders in Ulster and Afghanistan are being treated.
All our Armed Police should “down tools” and return to unarmed duties, including the Royal Protection Squad.
The Government will have to explain to the public the reason they, and the Royals, are no longer protected.
The Independent Office of Police Conduct is the latest name of the “Let’s Harass the Police on Behalf of Third World Ethnic Criminals” complaints quango set up after the Brixton Riots, and Steven Lawrence’s mother was given a peerage because diversity, and because white-on-black violence is so rare everywhere in the West that it’s downright embarrassing for the Globalist Warmongers.
Few will remember the Englishman Police Constable Keith Blakelock who was horrifically murdered in those riots, and whose murderer was never brought to justice. Rather like the murderer of American Ice Hockey star Adam Johnson was also never brought to justice, thanks to the Crown Prosecution Service throwing out all the evidence so painstakingly gathered by the police.
This IOPC is similar in intent to the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery set up in Northern Ireland to relentlessly hound everyone involved in the Northern Ireland War except Catholic Terrorists.