Gun Incidents in Great Britain
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Liverpool Echo
06-03-2016
A 35-year-old man was shot in the face with a shotgun in Liverpool, Merseyside. The victim was reportedly attacked while sitting in a parked car by a group of men who hid in their vehicle and ambushed him in what is said to have been a targeted attacked. The assailants escaped after the shooting, leaving the victim needing hospital treatment for non-life threatening injuries to his face.
ITV News
06-03-2016
Two males, aged 17 and 18, were shot with an airgun while at a private event at a football ground in Hawick, Scottish Borders. One sustained a pellet injury to his torso and the other to his leg.
Southern Daily Echo
06-03-2016
Armed police were deployed to reports of a man with a gun in a house in Southampton, Hampshire. The officers ascertained that the call had been a false alarm and stood down.
Mirror
05-03-2016
An apparent handgun was found abandoned at the scene of a crash between a moped, a car, and a coach on a road in Southwark, south-east London. The driver of the moped escaped on foot before police arrived at the scene. Police recovered the weapon for forensic testing.
Burton Mail
05-03-2016
A suspected shotgun was found by a member of the public on a street in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Police were called to the scene and recovered the gun for forensic testing.
Stratford Observer
05-03-2016
Matthew Claricoates has been jailed for two years and nine months after pleading guilty to possessing a firearm and an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and possessing a bladed article in public in Stratford, east London. Claricoates went to his neighbour’s house while under the influence of alcohol, asking to talk, before getting out an air pistol and asking his neighbour to come to his flat. His neighbour called police to the building, but he pointed an air rifle with a Swiss army knife attached to the barrel and an air pistol at the officers through a window. Claricoates surrendered his weapons after an hour-long stand off with police, and he was arrested. While out on bail, he was found drunk with a knife at a skate park in the area and was arrested again.
Northampton Chronicle & Echo
05-03-2016
Dale Robinson has been given a 14-month suspended prison sentence for illegally keeping a rifle and ammunition designed to expand upon impact at his home in Lavendon, Buckinghamshire. Police found the weapons insecurely stored in his home when they searched the property of the military history enthusiast after a man to whom he had sold a starter pistol used it to scare a member of the public in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Robinson was a legal shotgun owner, but did not have a firearms licence for the rifle or the expanding bullets.
Express & Star
04-03-2016
A shotgun was fired at least twice during an confrontation between a man with a gun and a group of men on a street in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. The shots were fired a few minutes after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed in the back and neck. He was taken to hospital where he was reported to be in stable condition. Ten men aged 19 to 39 were arrested in connection with the attacks, which were connected to a dispute between two groups.
ITV News
04-03-2016
An airgun has been fired through the window of a health food shop in Bishop Auckland, County Durham. The attack happened while the shop was closed but the pellet cracked the glass, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage.
The Courier
04-03-2016
Ronald McMichael, 63, has had his sentencing deferred for a year for “good behaviour” and avoided a five-year minimum prison sentence after pleading guilty to importing a stun gun designed to look like a torch over the Internet from China. He was arrested after border agents at Heathrow airport in Longford, west London intercepted the prohibited weapon. He claimed to have ordered the stun without knowing it was illegal intending to put it in a bedroom drawer for “home defence” so that his wife felt safe.
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About this information
This information is provided by the Infer Trust. It is compiled from media reports of incidents in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland has different gun legislation. We know the information is incomplete, though we believe nearly all of the most serious crimes are included.