by then he clearly has a gun in his hands behind his back and when he is about to be set with the metal detector ordered by the sergeant in charge of the custody centre, matiu ratana, he reaches from behind his back still handcuffed and manages to fire incredibly accurate shot directly to matiu ratana s heart and that s why the judges said that there was a degree of premeditation because while he was being taken to the police station he s had a chance to plot, to move the gun into his hands and to decide he s going to do and then at this moment in a holding cell in the police station he carried out what is effectively a short term but planned action to shoot a police officer directly in the chest and in fact directly in the chest and in fact directly in the heart and for that region the judge decided it was no reason to depart from the starting point, if you shoot a police officer in the course of his duty will never come out of prison. it s a whole life
has deemed must happen because the murder of a police officer in carrying out their duties usually determines a whole life sentence and in this case the judge could not find enough mitigating factors to outweigh the aggregating factors so that whole life term therefore is a decision of the judge. let s that whole life term therefore is a decision of thejudge. let s remind you of this case because it is one that we heard a lot about last month during the trial where he was found guilty of murder. let s remind you that matiu ratana, 5a years old, a police officer very well liked, very popular man who liked rugby. he was originally from new zealand and it came to london and joined the met police in 1991. he was in his mid 50s and he was actuallyjust months away from retirement. when he clocked into work as usual he was
complex. in some respects, it is possible that you may have less difficulty enduring loss of liberty and a structured regime than others, but in many other respects, it is likely that you will find imprisonment more difficult, particularly in how you deal with staff and other prisoners and the effect of noise and other sensory stimuli on you. on balance, i accept that you are likely to find prison more difficult than a neuro typical prisoner. i take that into account. your injuries. after shooting sergeant back to, you then fired two more shots matiu ratana. . 0ne hit the one of the cell unmercifully hit the one of the cell unmercifully hit miss to the other two officers who were restraining you. you were hit in the neck and this resulted in bleeding and a blood clot with
murdered in 2020. that police station in croydon. the man who did it was louis de zoysa and we can see some pictures now of that night. this is louis de zoysa being arrested earlier in the evening. at this point he was carrying a gun, but the police arresting him did not know it and did not find it. a little later he was taken into custody sell there and that is the moment where he took out the gun and fired it twice at matiu ratana. this gun was over 100 years old and the ammunition was home made and he had that first shot at matiu ratana which was the fatal one. and he also then fired again for shots in total in the third one hitting his own
hearing exactly the considerations that the judge is hearing exactly the considerations that thejudge is putting into determining the precise sentence. remember, he has been found guilty of the murder of matiu ratana. this is about the punishment and the sentencing and the decisions being made that thejudge sentencing and the decisions being made that the judge is outlining which is between setting a minimum term order or a whole life order and he has already determined that the starting point in this case will be whole life order. as we work to re establish that feed we will try to work out exactly what has gone on. if you are relatively new to watching these court proceedings here in the uk, to remind you of how it works. cameras traditionally have not been allowed in courts and is only relatively recently that we are going to a system whereby for sentencing, camera can focus on the judge and thejudge sentencing, camera can focus on the