A public inquiry has concluded the shooting by police of a young black man in London in 2015 was “lawful” but the operation itself was seriously flawed.
Jermaine Baker, 28, was part of a gang who were planning to “spring” a notorious gangster from a prison van en route to a crown court in north London.
On Dec. 11, 2015, the gang was plotting to free Izzet Eren, a Turkish gangster from north London, from a prison van as it took him to a hearing at Wood Green Crown Court.
Scotland Yard had been tipped off and the bid to free him was aborted after Baker was shot dead by police as he waited in a stolen Audi A3 car near the courthouse….