Car’s screeching tyres sounded ‘alarm bells’ before Kaba shooting, court told

“Loud screeching” sounded a informing for a firearms serviceman who leapt distant moments earlier the operator of a fishy car was fatally changeable by a colleague, a tribunal has heard.

Martyn Blake, 40, is connected proceedings astatine the Old Bailey accused of murdering 24-year-old Chris Kaba who was changeable done the beforehand windscreen of an Audi during an equipped constabulary stop.

Jurors person heard however Mr Kaba had been driving forwards and backmost successful an effort to ram his mode retired aft being blocked successful by equipped effect vehicles successful Streatham, southbound London.

On Tuesday, an serviceman known by the cypher MY40 described his relation successful the enhanced constabulary halt and extraction connected the evening of September 5 2022.

MY40 said helium had been 2nd successful a convoy of 3 equipped effect vehicles that had followed an Audi aft it was identified arsenic being linked to a firearms incidental the nighttime before.

A marked constabulary vehicle, which Blake was in, had been parked successful Kirkstall Gardens and initiated the “in line” halt by pulling retired nose-to-nose with the Audi conscionable aft 10pm, the tribunal was told.

When that happened, MY40 told jurors helium got retired of the “Bravo” conveyance successful the convoy down the fishy conveyance and utilized a solid hammer to smash a rear rider broadside model of the Audi.

He explained to jurors that due to the fact that it was acheronian and the Audi had tinted windows helium wanted to cheque determination were nary passengers and besides distract the driver, giving colleagues clip to get him retired safely.

I retrieve it precise distinctly being precise large and that is erstwhile alarm bells kicked in

Police witnesser to Kaba shooting

He said that smashing a model would besides springiness him the “less lethal option” of utilizing a taser.

He told jurors helium was “completely shocked” erstwhile the Audi started moving guardant aft it had been blocked successful by the marked constabulary car successful beforehand and the convoy behind.

“We are trained for things but I was not expecting that to hap astatine all. It was a surprise, yes,” helium said.

Jurors were shown dashcam video from 1 of the constabulary vehicles showing the witnesser repeatedly striking the model with fast, dense blows.

The solid hammer broke successful the process, MY40 added: “I’m not rather definite how.”

Having successfully smashed a rear triangle window, MY40 said helium went guardant again to effort to get the doorway unfastened and halt the vehicle.

He jumped backmost and retired of the mode erstwhile helium heard “loud screeching” helium associated with danger.

MY40 said: “The 1 happening that truly does instrumentality successful my caput was the large screeching. The car is revving truthful much.

“I retrieve it precise distinctly being precise large and that is erstwhile alarm bells kicked in.

“With the wheels screeching I had to get retired of the way, I judge my close limb was rather adjacent to the vehicle.”

Referring to constabulary body-worn video of the incident, defence barrister Patrick Gibbs KC said: “We perceive the instrumentality rotation arsenic the car goes forward, did you perceive connected that body-worn a screech from the tyres arsenic the Audi reversed arsenic well?”

The witnesser said helium remembered the Audi had been “pinned” by 1 of the cars, saying: “Within my caput is simply a information alert and it has stuck successful my caput since. It’s stuck with me, I’m not definite why, whether it represents the danger.”

The witnesser said helium was lasting by the rider side-wing reflector of the Audi erstwhile helium heard a gunshot but did not cognize wherever it had travel from astatine first.

He told jurors: “No substance however overmuch you bid it tin instrumentality you by surprise, the gunshot tin instrumentality you by surprise.”

“I conscionable heard a large sound. I heard large shouts of ‘shots fired’.”

MY40 went circular to the beforehand of the conveyance to spot what had happened and realised that the operator – Mr Kaba – had sustained a gunshot wounded to the head, the tribunal heard.

In the aftermath of the shooting, helium helped springiness exigency archetypal assistance to Mr Kaba and negociate the increasing fig of members of the nationalist and vehicles successful the road.

Blake has denied execution and the proceedings continues.