Met officer may be sacked decade after killing man in prison break

A Metropolitan Police firearms officer is facing the sack almost ten years after shooting dead a gangster during an attempted prison break.

The officer, known only by the codename 'W80', gunned down Jermaine Baker, 28, during a dramatic intelligence-led operation in December 2015.

Career criminal Baker had plotted to break two convicts out of Wood Green Crown Court in north London.

Now, nearly a decade later, W80 is being hauled before a disciplinary panel in October and could be dismissed from the force if found guilty of gross misconduct.

The move follows a ruling from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which earlier this month also ordered a gross misconduct hearing for Sergeant Martyn Blake - the firearms officer recently cleared of murdering gangster Chris Kaba in another high-profile shooting.