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Misconduct hearing against Met Police officer who fatally shot Jermaine Baker during foiled prison break discontinued
The misconduct hearing for officer W80 was discontinued after a panel found no case to answer in the shooting of Jermaine Baker during a 2015 foiled prison break attempt.
- On Wednesday, the misconduct hearing at Palestra House was thrown out, ending proceedings against W80, the Metropolitan Police firearms officer who shot Jermaine Baker near Wood Green Crown Court.
- Following Independent Office for Police Conduct direction, the Met opened disciplinary proceedings for gross misconduct, which began last week after years of legal battles involving W80.
- Mr Baker was unarmed, and investigators later found an imitation firearm in the car used in the plot while he sat in the front passenger seat of a stolen Audi A6.
- By dismissing the case, the panel ended the current disciplinary process nearly a decade after the incident, with Chris McKay, chairman of the hearing panel, saying there was no case for W80 to answer.
- Previously, prosecutors and an inquiry examined the case and found the officer was investigated on suspicion of murder but the Crown Prosecution Service did not charge him in 2017, while the 2022 public inquiry concluded the killing was lawful.
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Case dropped for Met Police officer who shot unarmed man during attempted prison escape
A Metropolitan Police marksman who shot dead a man while preventing an attempted prisoner escape in 2015 will not face disciplinary action, a misconduct panel has confirmed. The panel at Palestra House discontinued proceedings against the officer, identified only as W80, who killed Jermaine Baker near Wood Green Crown Court in North London.The decision ends nearly ten years of legal proceedings that reached the Supreme Court.The counter-terroris…
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The Independent (US)Misconduct hearing thrown out for police marksman who fatally shot man
The officer, known only as W80, shot Jermaine Baker, as police stopped a plot to snatch two prisoners from a van near Wood Green Crown Court in 2015.
·London, United Kingdom
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