To all my gouty friends in the UK
Since you don't have capital punishment anymore in the UK (you don't, do you?) when you catch the creeps who are messing up your WONDERFUL London, inject them with high levels of uric acid daily and keep them away from indo et al. Good for a start.
I think he ran because he was being chased by a plain clothed police officer with a gun. Surely if the policeman was in a proper policemans uniform he would have stopped.