Daily Mirror

SARGE DEATH:

- BY MATTHEW YOUNG, TOM PARRY and PATRICK HILL

RAIDED Police cars outside farmhouse

A SECOND man has been arrested in connection with the death of Sergeant Matt Ratana.

A man was held in Norwich at 2am yesterday on suspicion of supplying a gun linked to his shooting at a Croydon custody suite in the early hours of Friday.

The 23-year-old suspect thought to have carried out the shooting itself was named by the BBC as Louis De Zoysa, from Norbury, South London.

Police have been unable to speak to him because he is critically ill in hospital, having reportedly turned the gun on himself after shooting Sgt Ratana.

Prince Charles described the incident as “heartbreak­ing” as he led tributes to fallen officers yesterday.

De Zoysa is said to be a former Catholic

TRIBUTES The Prince of Wales

churchgoer and one of five children from a middle class family.

A neighbour told the Mirror: “I saw Louis being stopped and searched by the police a couple of months ago at the top of the road. They were searching him really thoroughly from head to toe.

“He has always seemed a bit different.”

Another said: “The family have lived here 25 to 30 years.

“I woke up on Friday morning and saw the whole road was filled with police vans. They were all still here until about midday yesterday and since then police have been guarding the house, going in and out.

“The dad is called Channa and is from Sri Lanka. He is self employed and drives a big red van. The mum is called Elizabeth and is an interprete­r.

“She’s English. They have five children aged between about 15 and 25.

“There are three boys and two girls and they keep themselves to themselves.”

It also emerged armed police raided a farmhouse in Surrey on Saturday

I could make out police with guns, some in military uniforms

morning in connection with Sgt Ratana’s death.

Officers are understood to have blown a door off. A neighbour said: “There was a huge explosion and I looked out my window and saw that there must

NEIGHBOUR ON POLICE RAIDING A FARMHOUSE

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