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A judge has sentenced the murderer of Sergeant Matt Ratana to life in prison for shooting the custody sergeant dead while handcuffed in a Croydon police cell in September 2020.

Louis De Zoysa was convicted of murder in June after jurors were shown distressing CCTV footage of the 26-year-old using a legally-bought revolver to gun down the police officer.

Sentencing De Zoysa at Northampton Crown Court on Thursday (27 July), High Court judge Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson said: “You acted in cold blood... The aggravating factors outweigh the mitigating factors. There is therefore no justification to depart from the starting point of a whole-life order.”

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00:00 The aggravating factors, in my judgment, outweigh the mitigating factors.
00:05 The aggravating effect of your use of a gun and the planning and premeditation outweigh
00:12 the mitigating effects of your personal mitigation, including the impact of custody.
00:19 There is therefore no justification to depart from the starting point of a whole-life order.
00:27 That is what Parliament has decided should normally apply as a starting point to the
00:32 murder of a police officer.
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