metropolitan police officer matt ratana, who was shot in the chest inside a south london police station. louis de zoysa used an antique revolver, which he d smuggled into a holding cell at croydon custody centre, to shoot sergeant ratana in 2020. he was handcuffed at the time. the case was heard at northampton crown court. we can cross live there now to our correspondent frances read. as you said, in the last half hour, we have had it that guilty verdict. it took the jury some approximately five hours to deliberate that verdict. as we said, back in september 2020 that 25 year old, now 25 year old louis de zoysa was stopped as part of a routine search before he was taken to a police station, and it is there that he was able to discharge the shots from this antique revolver. let s have a little look back on the case now with daniel sandford. you re walking down the road with a duffel bag, right? which i believe may have staff equipped to do a burglary. may have staff equipped t
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