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6 TOP COVER ISSUE 9

FEATURE

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WRITTEN BY STEVE HARTSHORN

shooting took place in the early hours of
the 5th September 2014, the next shift after
the murder beheading of the lady in North
London by a crazed and deprived lonewolf
with a very big knife. The shift that had dealt
with this blood-soaked and violent detention
were still going through the PIP process when
A the night duty had come on. Little did they
know that they too would be back for their very own PIP.
Mr. Joseph had smashed his way into a flat, by breaking a
window, belonging to his ex girlfriend, Julie Moyses and taken her
hostage at knife point. Numerous neighbours had called police
to report the incident and the intital public accounts in relation
to his threats to kill her and the level of aggression read like a fragile situation. The turning point came when Mr. Joseph very
prologue from a James Patterson novel. The comments taken swiftly, purposely and without warning, thrust the knife towards
from those witnesses over the phone led you to believe that she Miss Moyses’ throat from his own and began to sink the blade
was going to die that night and it was only a matter of when and into her neck.
how painfully. The officer recalled not only seeing the knife pushing into
Officers from the local area of Islington arrived and deployed her flesh, but the gasping of her breath and sheer panic in her
very promptly and began to negotiate with the male via an open eyes as she believed that she was going to die that very moment.
window. The threats continued and he held her at knifepoint for He believed that she was going to be murdered and he had only
over an hour. The knife, at times, was at his own throat and he one option.
had made threats to kill himself so as to prevent police taking any The line in the sand had been crossed and K35 delivered
immediate action. He had Julie Moyses as a human shield and the first round from the G36 to the central body mass with
declared that he would end it that night. a deafening rapport. With his focus still on the threat and
K35, the officer who shot Dean Joseph, had been deployed for no noticeable reaction from the subject, a second round was
approximately 30 minutes. He was on the front aspect with his discharged, again to the central body mass.
G36 carbine rifle. Steadily and covertly he crouched outside the This time the effects began to show and the knifeman
flat next to the local officer who was maintaining the tense and slumped back and the knife was lowered. Within seconds a