Dashcam footage shows Chris Kaba's final journey before being shot dead by Met Police cop

The footage shows Mr Kaba pulling into Kirkstall Garden successful Streatham, southbound London, wherever helium is met by constabulary officers successful the moments earlier his death

Dashcam footage released contiguous shows Chris Kaba's last travel earlier helium was changeable dormant by an equipped Met Police officer.

The signaling from an unmarked constabulary car shows the winding way Mr Kaba, 24, took earlier his Audi Q8 was stopped by equipped officers connected September 5 2022. Within seconds of a tactical portion executing a stop, Mr Kaba was killed with a azygous gunshot to the forehead.

The footage was contiguous shown to jurors astatine the Old Bailey for the proceedings of firearms serviceman Martyn Blake, 40, who is accused of murdering Mr Kaba. Blake denies murder. During the four-minute recording, Mr Kaba is seen pulling into Kirkstall Garden successful Streatham, southbound London, wherever helium is met by constabulary officers.

Prosecutors accidental Mr Kaba tried to ram constabulary cars that blocked his way - but that Blake's determination to termination Mr Kaba was "not justified". Tom Little KC said the determination has suggested helium acted aft becoming "angry, frustrated and annoyed" that his orders were not "obeyed".

Jurors contiguous heard Blake said helium jumped from his marked BMW X5 and aimed his .223 Remington semi-automatic firearm astatine Mr Kaba. He said helium pointed the weapon's greenish laser dot successful Mr Kaba's absorption successful a hopeless bid to marque his stop, believing helium was aiming astatine his chest, the tribunal heard.

But helium said helium fired a azygous changeable which deed Mr Kaba's forehead due to the fact that determination was "a large dependable of an motor revving astatine the apical of its range" and helium "was feeling rather frightened and filled with dread astatine that stage". Prosecutors accidental Mr Kaba's conveyance - which had been linked to a gunshot incidental the erstwhile nighttime - was "penned in", the motor was not revving and helium could not flight the situation.

But successful an archetypal relationship to his superiors, Blake said: "I had a genuine content that either of america could beryllium killed and moved close retired of the way. The operator past rammed our car, which was down maine arsenic good arsenic a parked car and stopped, wedged. Seeing the car was stopped I went circular to the beforehand and again challenged the operator saying thing like, 'Armed police, halt the vehicle', astatine this constituent the operator reversed backmost astatine large velocity arsenic accelerated arsenic helium could, straight towards my colleagues who were retired connected ft approaching the vehicle.

"The antheral had already shown a propensity to usage unit and was blessed to usage immoderate means to flight and I had a genuine held content that 1 oregon galore of my colleagues could beryllium killed by the car, and that the operator would not halt his effort to flight astatine immoderate cost.

"I past made the determination to incapacitate the operator owed to the imminent menace to my colleagues and took 1 aimed changeable astatine the driver. He instantly slumped and the car stopped.” Jurors were told Blake said helium felt "at sedate hazard of superior wounded by virtuousness of the ramming of our conveyance and could easy person been killed owed to the ferocity of the interaction of the Audi moving forward".

He said it was "his content was that if helium had not discharged his limb to incapacitate the operator helium would person watched 1 oregon much colleagues dice and would person failed successful his work to them successful accordance with his training". Blake said helium fired his weapon, hoping it would "make interaction with the driver's chest".

However, prosecutors assertion Blakes' mentation of the shooting was "false" and "exaggerated". They claimed Mr Kaba's conveyance reached a maximum velocity of conscionable 12mph during the confrontation and the motor was not revving. Mr Little KC told the court: "Mr Kaba’s hands were connected the instrumentality and were disposable to the defendant.

"There was nary revving arsenic described, determination was nary imaginable firearm successful his hand, and it was acold from definite that helium would effort again to thrust done a spread fixed that helium had failed to get done the spread before. There was nary firearm successful the conveyance and the suspect does not suggest that determination was immoderate question by him of his hands to marque him deliberation that helium was reaching for a firearm."

The tribunal was told Blake had not activated his assemblage worn camera, but pushed the device's fastener "seconds aft helium discharged his firearm". However, "the anterior 60 seconds of footage connected the camera are automatically captured", Mr Little told jurors. Patrick Gibbs KC, defending, implored the assemblage to marque up their minds aft proceeding Blake's evidence.

He said it was accepted that Blake's actions earlier helium "squeezed the trigger" and instantly aft were "proper and lawful". And helium told the jury: "[Blake] was doing his honorable best, according to his training, to construe what helium had seen and recognize what could hap if helium didn't occurrence successful that 17-second incidental of a information and strength I anticipation that nary of america volition ever person to contemplate.

"You volition person to look astatine immoderate grounds of anger, annoyance oregon vexation connected the behalf of Mr Blake." He said Blake had "volunteered and agreed to judge the unspeakable work of whether to usage lethal force". Blake denies murder. The proceedings astatine the Old Bailey continues.