Inquest for man shot seven times by police reopens
GoogleAn inquest jury has been told a man died when he was shot seven times by two armed police officers.
Sergii Kuzmenko, a Ukrainian who "spoke limited English", was killed by Cumbria Police officers responding to reports of a man making threats to kill while a young child was present.
It happened at a house on Borland Avenue in Carlisle on 19 December 2022 and followed a 999 call from the man's sister.
Senior coroner Kirsty Gomersal reopened Kuzmenko's inquest in Workington on Monday and told told the jury there would be an examination of the use of firearms and police policy for interacting with people whose first language is not English.
Evidence presented would include a recording of the 999 call and footage from police body worn cameras
Anonymity order
Two uniformed police officers went to the house in the Botcherby area following the 999 call made by Luidmyla Hendley.
The coroner told the jury Kuzmenko was inside the house with "a knife in his hand holding it to a child's throat".
Armed police officers were called and they shouted orders for Kuzmenko to put the knife down.
He was then shot seven times in total by the two officers who are being identified only as C and L.
At a previous hearing the coroner ruled the pair, along with two other armed colleagues, would be granted anonymity on the basis their safety could be at risk if their identities were revealed.