Wood Green shooting: Two men jailed hours after man shot dead by police 'tried to free them from court'

Glenn Copus
Robin de Peyer12 December 2015
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Two men were jailed hours after a man was shot dead by police when officers smashed a suspected plot to spring them from court.

Armed police swooped on a cul-de-sac yards from Wood Green Crown Court as Izzet Eren, 32, and Erwin Amoyaw-Gyamfi, 29, were due to be sentenced for planning a "professional hit".

The 28-year-old man who was killed is believed to have been near the back entrance to the court building when he was fired upon.

Armed police wearing balaclavas and in unmarked 4x4 vehicles carried out the "intelligence-led" operation at around 9am on Friday.

Armed police at the scene Glenn Copus
Jeremy Selwyn

Scotland Yard said four men aged between 19 and 31 were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to facilitate escape from lawful custody.

A 30-year-old and a 19-year-old were held by armed police in the Bracknell Close area, while a 31-year-old and a 25-year-old were detained in nearby Barratt Avenue. They are currently being questioned at separate police stations.

Local Resident Junior James, 50, a painter and decorator, said: “I never heard any shots but suddenly there were blue lights outside the window and police everywhere.

Bystanders and police at the scene Jeremy Selwyn
Jeremy Selwyn

“I can see a lot of police officers and what looked a white guy who is on the floor. There were paramedics working on him and his clothes were strewn all over the ground. They looked like they were trying to resuscitate him.

“There are a lot of police in casual gear with police caps on. There are about a dozen. There was a black guy who was led away by police.

Police at the scene of the shooting
Jeremy Selwyn

“There are a lot of tensions around here now.”

An air ambulance was called to the scene, where police earlier cordoned off a section of road around the junction of Bracknell Close and Olympus Grove, near Winkfield Road.

Paramedics fought to save the man but he died before he could be taken to hospital.

A white forensics tent was erected near an ambulance in the residential street, which is lined on either side with cars, and plain clothes officers were seen with evidence bags.

The Directorate of Professional Standards - the Metropolitan Police's internal watchdog - is investigating, along with the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

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