Yvette Cooper ‘urgently’ looking at gun laws after Luton triple murder trial

Home secretary says Nicholas Prosper case ‘exposed deep and longstanding weaknesses in private firearms sales’The government is to look at tightening gun controls after a teenager who bought a shotgun by forging a firearms licence was jailed for life for murdering his family and planning a school massacre.The full details of Nicholas Prosper’s failed plot to storm a morning assembly at his old school and kill 30 children in a bid to become notorious as the worst mass murderer in British history were made public this week. Continue reading...

Yvette Cooper ‘urgently’ looking at gun laws after Luton triple murder trial

Home secretary says Nicholas Prosper case ‘exposed deep and longstanding weaknesses in private firearms sales’

The government is to look at tightening gun controls after a teenager who bought a shotgun by forging a firearms licence was jailed for life for murdering his family and planning a school massacre.

The full details of Nicholas Prosper’s failed plot to storm a morning assembly at his old school and kill 30 children in a bid to become notorious as the worst mass murderer in British history were made public this week. Continue reading...