Wood Green shooting: firearms officer arrested

Scotland Yard confirms Jermaine Baker does not appear on its gang member databases

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A police marksman has been arrested after shooting a suspect dead in Wood Green last week.

Jermaine Baker, 28, was shot in the neck as he sat in a car near Wood Green Crown Court in north London on Friday morning.

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