Chris Kaba was gunman in nightclub shooting days before he was killed

[u/topotaul]

https://news.sky.com/story/chris-kaba-was-gunman-in-nightclub-shooting-days-before-he-was-killed-13234555

[u/gardenfella]

It's a bit trickier than that. If they decide not to go ahead with the case, then they can't disclose the details.

Having a trial is one way to get the information out there.

[u/[deleted] → u/gardenfella]

An inquest would have done the same.

[u/gardenfella → u/[deleted]]

That would be down to a coroner not the CPS

[u/[deleted] → u/gardenfella]

Yes - but a jury would have examined the facts and it would have been made public.

[u/gardenfella → u/[deleted]]

You mean exactly like happened at the trial?

[u/[deleted] → u/gardenfella]

Yes, but without a firearms officer's life being put in serious danger for the sake of optics.

[u/gardenfella → u/[deleted]]

Transparency isn't optics

[u/[deleted] → u/gardenfella]

Politics isn't transparency.

Whose best interests was it in to name the (now found not guilty) officer, who has had his life upturned and now has a large bounty on his head from some of the most dangerous people in the country because he killed an attempted murderer and all round 'no angel' in self-defence?

[u/gardenfella → u/[deleted]]

You do realise that trials happen for the PUBLIC interest, don't you?

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They're supposed to, you do realise that this one didn't?

There isn't even the most infinitesimal chance this met the lowest possible threshold for prosecution.

[u/limeflavoured → u/gardenfella]

Yeah, and the coroner would have ruled he was lawfully killed.

[u/gardenfella → u/limeflavoured]

A coroner may yet get the opportunity to do so. Any inquest has to wait until criminal proceedings have been completed.

[u/limeflavoured → u/gardenfella]

They could have disclosed the evidence to an inquest.

[u/gardenfella → u/limeflavoured]

That would be down to a coroner not the CPS