‘My jaw dropped as police found a zombie knife bigger than my arm in pre-Notting Hill Carnival raids’

Police get ready to raid a house in Merton (Picture: w8media) Outside a south London home with a rose bush in the garden and a freshly painted white fence, police officers drenched in tactical gear wait silently outside. It is 5am and Metro has joined the Metropolitan Police in Mitcham, Merton, for a spate of dawn raids across the borough. You could have heard a pin drop as officers carrying door rammers and glass cutters arrived. They were not needed. In the end, the front door was left unlocked, and nearly 20 officers were able to simply walk in. But as they entered, ready to arrest a man on suspicion of supplying Class-A drugs, a child could be heard crying for their mum through one of the top-floor windows. The level of force suddenly seemed crazy, but officers today were preventing fu