Martyn Blake is having to live in hiding, fearing for his life and his family after a £10,000 reward was offered to anyone prepared to kill him in revenge for the death of Chris Kaba in South London in 2022.
Gangsters put a £10,000 bounty on the head of a police marksman after he shot dead Chris Kaba, it can be revealed today.
But the full circumstances behind the case could not be revealed after Mr Justice Goss imposed reporting restrictions on the trial. When police boxed in the vehicle in a residential street in Streatham, Mr Kaba used the car as a 'battering ram' revving back and forth in the high-powered Audi almost dragging the ten officers surrounding him under the wheels before Sergeant Blake finally ended the rampage by shooting the driver.
Just six days before his death, Mr Kaba brazenly gunned down a rival in the middle of a crowded nightclub during a bloody feud for control of a profitable county lines drug network. CCTV footage showed Mr Kaba spotting his rival at the club on the evening of August 30, 2022, before grabbing a bag from a friend, pulling on a single black glove then covering his face.
Mr Kaba's associates, Shemiah Bell and Marcus Pottinger, both 31, were found guilty of wounding with intent in February while Connel Bamgboye, 29, was convicted of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. So entangled was he in the perpetual bloodshed of London's gang wars that the night Mr Kaba was killed was not even the first time he had been shot.Mr Kaba revelled in the violence, releasing drill rap songs bragging about gunning down rivals and selling drugs.
But Mr Justice Goss ruled that details should be kept from the jury as Blake didn't know it was Mr Kaba behind the wheel when he opened fire that night.The ruling meant jurors failed to comprehend why the driver was so desperate to escape that night. Superintendent Ross McKibbin, head of Counter Terrorism in the Met said: 'In nearly 30 years of service, I have never been more concerned about the welfare of an officer or the likelihood of them or their family coming to serious harm as I am about Martyn Blake in this case.'
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