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Mr Blake will be transferred from the firearms unit to another department within the force, it is understood.

Landlords in Lambeth, South London, are likely to be captured by its selective licensing scheme, after councillors voted for its expansion.

Landlords will be required to buy a £923 licence to rent out properties in certain areas of Lambeth under a new property licensing scheme that has been rolled out across most of the borough after a successful launch in four wards earlier this year.

Andrew Edhouse, 64 and his partner, Carol Streatham, 66, were hit with an eviction notice from their static home on Canvey’s Thorney Bay Village and were ordered to leave by October 22.

Father-to-be Kaba was a “core member” of the notorious ’67 gang’ in Brixton Hill, with a history of criminal activity including a jail term for possession of a firearm.

Lambeth council’s new private renting licensing scheme will soon apply to most of the borough.

A senior firearms officer who shot a man wrongly suspected of being a terrorist has recalled thinking "he's gonna blow. We're gonna die" shortly before pulling the trigger.

The decision was made at a public meeting on November 4 following an extended period of public consultation with the community, as the council works to protect the borough’s high standard of primary school education.