A man has been found guilty of murdering Metropolitan Police Sergeant Matt Ratana while handcuffed at a custody block in south London.
A jury of seven men and five women deliberated for just over five hours over two days before unanimously convicting Louis De Zoysa, who listened to the verdict sitting in a wheelchair in the secure glass-fronted dock.
They found De Zoysa guilty of shooting Sergeant Ratana in the chest while handcuffed during a search at the police station in Croydon in the early hours of 25 September 2020.
Sgt Ratana’s partner, Su Bushby, and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley were among those in the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
De Zoysa from Banstead, Surrey, claimed diminished responsibility, and denied committing murder, but the jury decided that he pulled the antique weapon’s trigger deliberately and did not suffer an autistic meltdown.
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