Public inquiry into man shot dead by police in Edgware (From Times Series)

Public inquiry into man shot dead by police in Edgware in 2005

11:57am Monday 3rd September 2012 in News By Natalie O'Neill

A public inquiry into the death of a 24-year-old has begun seven years after he was shot dead by a police marksman in 2005.

Azelle Rodney, from Hounslow, was in the back of a car in Hale Lane, Edgware, when an officer opened fire.

He was shot six times after the car was followed by police in a planned operation.

The inquiry is the first into a fatal police shooting and is being presided over by Sir Christopher Holland.

Oral hearings will begin at a court in the Principal Registry of the Family Division in central London. 

Sir Christopher, a retired High Court judge, is expected to determine how, when, where and in what circumstances Mr Rodney died.

The inquiry is expected to last up to ten weeks.