A man has been found guilty of murdering a Police Custody Sergeant with a gun he had smuggled into a cell. A jury at Northampton crown court convicted Louis De Zoysa, 25, of murdering Sgt Matt Ratana, 54, with a gunshot to the chest at a custody block in Croydon, south London, in September 2020. The court heard that De Zoysa, a former tax office data analyst from Banstead, Surrey, had managed to fire shots despite being handcuffed in a holding room after being found with bullets by members of a street patrol. After the initial shot, a further three shots were fired during a struggle with police officers. One hit Ratana in the leg and the final shot left De Zoysa with a “severe and life-threatening injury”. De Zoysa’s lawyers argued that he had not meant to shoot Ratana, and claimed he had a defence of diminished responsibility because he had had an “autistic meltdown”. But a doctor told the court that he did not think De Zoysa had been hyperventilating, based on video …

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