![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/britains-worst-criminals-who-will-die-behind-bars-from-yorkshire-ripper-to-the-iceman/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/4_Louis-de-Zoysa-court-case.jpg&description=Evil killer Louis de Zoysa joins more than 60 other callous criminals serving whole-life sentences behind bars for their heinous crimes. De Zoysa was handed the whole life order after shooting a veteran policeman Louis de Zoysa will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he shot dead a veteran policeman while in a police station cell. The 26-year-old fired an antique Colt revolver, which he'd been hiding under his coat, at Met Police Sergeant Matt Ratana. In handcuffs, he fired a second bullet which hit his own neck, which caused him to have a stroke and suffer a brain injury, and he is now in a wheelchair. Sentencing De Zoysa, from Banstead, Surrey, Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson said: 'You acted in cold blood. You intended to kill Sergeant Ratana. You aimed the gun at his chest at near point-blank range." Jurors were told De Zoysa was a gun fanatic and a shortened infantry rifle, numerous types of ammunition, a pipe gun, and a dummy launcher were found at his rented property after the killing. The cop killer joins a string of the country's most dangerous offenders who are expected to die behind bars, including disgraced police officer Wayne Couzens and necrophiliac . Whole-life orders are the most severe punishment available in the UK criminal justice system for those who commit the most serious crimes. More than 60 criminals are serving whole-life orders - these are the killers who will never walk the streets of Britain again... Bendall, 32, dubbed the "sleepover killer", pleaded guilty to murdering his 35-year-old partner Terri Harris, her 11-year-old daughter Lacey Bennett, her son John Paul Bennett, 13, and Lacey's friend Connie Gent, also 11, at the home he shared with Ms Harris. He also admitted raping Lacey at the house in Killamarsh, near Sheffield, in 2021, during what prosecutor Louis Mably KC told Derby Crown Court were "brutal, vicious and cruel attacks on a defenceless woman" and young children. Justice Nigel Sweeney had no hesitation in handing him){kind=link}
Evil killer Louis de Zoysa joins more than 60 other callous criminals serving whole-life sentences behind bars for their heinous crimes. De Zoysa was handed the whole life order after shooting a veteran policeman
Louis de Zoysa will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he shot dead a veteran policeman while in a police station cell.
The 26-year-old fired an antique Colt revolver, which he’d been hiding under his coat, at Met Police Sergeant Matt Ratana. In handcuffs, he fired a second bullet which hit his own neck, which caused him to have a stroke and suffer a brain injury, and he is now in a wheelchair.
Sentencing De Zoysa, from Banstead, Surrey, Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson said: “You acted in cold blood. You intended to kill Sergeant Ratana. You aimed the gun at his chest at near point-blank range.” Jurors were told De Zoysa was a gun fanatic and a shortened infantry rifle, numerous types of ammunition, a pipe gun, and a dummy launcher were found at his rented property after the killing.
The cop killer joins a string of the country’s most dangerous offenders who are expected to die behind bars, including disgraced police officer Wayne Couzens and necrophiliac David Fuller.