Diane Abbott said Kaba was 'going about his daily life.' I'm still waiting for her apology - Kelvin MacKenzie

This is what she said following the Kaba killing two years ago; ‘’As the terrible fate of Chris Kaba shows, people can lose their lives even when going about their daily lives.’’

Going about their daily lives? He was using his Audi as a battering ram to escape from police cars which had wedged him in. That Audi was his used by him to escape from the nightclub shooting and to flee from another shooting in Brixton a few days later.

Had Ms Abbott simply picked up the phone to the Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley she would have learned the background to this piece of filth. But that wouldn’t have suited her political narrative. Police bad, young black man good.

It is quite beyond me why the black community would want to be associated in any form with Kaba. Surely colour can’t mean they are blind to the fact that he had been a bad ‘un (a shocking bad ‘un in fact) since 13 and was either going to be murdered by drug gang rivals, face a life in prison or be shot dead as he took on the police.

These were his choices. I saw a good tweet from a black guy this morning saying colour meant he had no more connection to Kaba than Sir Mark Rowley had with Fred West.

Abbott wasn’t the only fool. Corbyn, Stormzy, Mayor Khan and of course our old chums at Black Lives Matter. Instead of worrying about a scumbag like Kaba why didn’t they express concerns about the people he was shooting, all of them young black men. It’s a puzzle isn’t it?

I was particularly taken by the University of Greenwich getting involved. What on earth had it to do with them?

In their statement they pointed out he was killed in Streatham, only half an hour from their campus. I imagine in 30 minutes in any direction from the university I imagine there have been many young black men killed and it not led a statement being issued.

The statement, which wisely can no longer be seen online, went on; ‘’We heard the heartbreaking news of the death Chris Kaba, a 24-year-old musician and aspiring architect who was expecting a baby with her fiancée.’’

I should point out here he was a domestic abuser and banned by a court from going near his family. Aspiring architect caught my eye. More likely to shoot the windows out rather than put them in.

The statement linked his death with that of George Floyd saying the university were committed “to do more to eliminate racism.’’ Unclear to me why a state funded academic body should be involved, especially when they had no idea, and neither did any of us, what a piece of work Kaba was.

Might have been wiser to see which way the cards would fall instead of making bloody idiots of themselves.

Nobody has heard a word from the university since his shocking background has been revealed. Perhaps they might concentrate on giving youngsters in the area a decent education.

In these difficult times for universities, I suspect they issued the statement to attract ‘’good publicity’’ and stop having to lay off academics, the fate which has fallen Goldsmiths College down the road in New Cross.

There is much to be learned about the death of Chris Kaba. The main takeaway for the race baiters in politics is keep schtum until you know the facts.