Dramatic moment armed police arrest killer Kane Kotwica

A man who stabbed another man to death and seriously injured two others was dramatically arrested at gunpoint in the street before later being found guilty of murder at Bristol Crown Court. Kane Kotwica, 39, of Bibury Road in Gloucester, killed 53-year-old Matthew Cainey during a violent attack inside a flat on Bedford Street on May 28 this year. After the incident, he fled the property and was arrested nearby by armed officers who ordered him to lie face-down on the road.

Footage released after the trial shows officers stopping their unmarked car at the junction of Painswick Road and Chequers Road. One officer can be heard saying “There he is” before shouting: “Armed police, get down on the floor now!” Kotwica, wearing his hood up,

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