Jermaine Baker has been named locally as the man shot dead by police (Picture: SWNS)

Police have charged four men in connection with a foiled plot to help to convicts escape, during which a man was shot dead by officers.

The suspects have all been charged with trying to help Izzet Eren, 32, and Erwin Amoyaw-Gyamfi, 29, flee from a prison van when they were on their way to court on Friday.

A stand-off with police resulted in Jermaine Baker, a 28-year-old dad-of two from Tottenham, north London, being killed in Wood Green.

The IPCC and the Met Police’s internal watchdog, the Directorate of Professional Standards, are now investigating the shooting.


Police and paramedics at the scene in Wood Green on Friday (Picture: PA)

Friends of Baker said they were shocked and confused by what had happened, and were still coming to terms with his death.



‘I just started crying,’ his childhood friend Charlotte Asar, 26, said. ‘I couldn’t believe it. I was surprised how emotional I was, but I was absolutely devastated.’

Friends were shocked to hear of Jermaine’s death (Picture: SWNS)

She said she was unsure how Jermaine became caught up in the incident in Wood Green.

‘He was never loud or in trouble with the law or part of a bad crowd,’ Charlotte added. ‘That’s why I don’t understand why he was where he was when he was shot.’

The scene of the shooting in Wood Green (Picture: SWNS)

Charlotte’s sister Suela, 36, added: ‘He was never in trouble and never part of a bad crowd or anything. If he was we wouldn’t have hung around with him.

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‘That’s what’s so shocking, because it just doesn’t make any sense why he was there. It’s just very sad.’