An armed police officer was moments from shooting dead a man with a gun during a four-hour siege, a court heard.The officer was about to pull the trigger when he saw Darren Morgan start to turn towards him carrying an air rifle at a window of his home.Troubled Morgan, aged 51, later told a probation officer he was "better off dead at the hands of a policeman".The armed officer told Plymouth Crown Court that in several years on response it was the closest he had ever come to shooting...
