The identity of firearms officers will be kept secret if they are prosecuted unless they are convicted, the Home Secretary announced in the wake of the Chris Kaba case.

Police will be granted anonymity in court if they are charged over a fatal police shooting in measures announced in the wake an outcry over the Chris Kaba murder trial. Home secretary Yvette Cooper unveiled plans for firearms officers facing criminal proceedings over police shootings to be granted a presumption of anonymity up until the point of a conviction.

A London gang has placed a "£10,000 bounty" on the Met Police officer who shot Chris Kaba dead following a trial which cleared him for murder. Martyn Blake, 40, has fled his home after a gang of criminals put a bounty on his head to avenge the 24-year-old,