Gun Incidents in Great Britain
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Canterbury Times
10-05-2013
An inquest into the death of Malcolm Constable, 58, has found that he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a licensed shotgun in the garden of his brother's home in Canterbury, Kent. He was found by his brother with a gunshot wound to the head next to the gun, and had been struggling financially and emotionally at the time of his death. Despite having undergone counselling at a mental health centre in the town, Constable still held a firearms licence and had bought the shotgun just a week before his suicide.
Birmingham Mail
10-05-2013
George O'Brien and Joel Henry have been jailed for 13 years each for possessing a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life after they fired a gun at a car across a busy road in a gang-related shooting in the centre of Birmingham, West Midlands. They shot at their target in the presence of other vehicles and pedestrians, but the bullet bounced off the car and no one was injured.
BBC News
10-05-2013
Louis Warwick has been jailed for three-and-a-half years and been ordered to pay a £120 victim surcharge after pleading guilty to robbery and possession of an imitation firearm with intent in Poole, Dorset. He was arrested shortly after carrying out the robbery at the bank in the town.
Bedford Times & Citizen
10-05-2013
Jamie Scott and Jordan James have been jailed for eight and six years respectively for robbing and kidnapping a taxi driver and pointing an imitation gun at police officers in Luton, Bedfordshire. The pair called a taxi and got in before attacking the driver from behind, holding a knife to his neck, and taking his wallet, phone and money. The forced him to stop at a petrol station and withdraw £300, threatening to shoot him if he did not comply. The terrified victim jumped from the moving car when he saw two police officers on patrol, and the assailants fled, Scott turning to point the gun and threatening to shoot if they continued the pursuit. They were eventually caught by the police officers, who arrested the men and recovered the knives and the imitation handgun they were carrying.
Oxford Mail
10-05-2013
A 75-year-old newsagent was assaulted by two men with a gun during the robbery of his shop in Oxford. The masked robbers threatened him with the gun and demanded cash, pushing the victim to the ground when he refused to give them any. The pair escaped in a car with cash and packets of cigarettes, leaving the victim with a cut to the bridge of his nose. The incident follows the robbery of a bookmakers in the city by two masked robbers who also threatened staff with a gun. Two men were arrested in connection with that incident.
Lincolnshire Echo
10-05-2013
A man reportedly used a gun to threaten the manager of a newsagents during a robbery in Lincoln. The masked man allegedly used the weapon to force the victim into the shop at opening time and escaped with several thousand pounds of cash. Police have arrested two men in connection with the robbery and have stated that the weapon used was not actually a firearm.
Grimsby Telegraph
10-05-2013
Police have arrested a man after he was involved in a stand-off with firearms officers at his home in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Armed police were called to the property after the 46-year-old made threats to harm himself when intoxicated, and arrested him after seven hours of negotiations for breaching a restraining order and possible firearms offences. No shots were fired and neither the suspect nor a 63-year-old man who was also in the house were injured in the incident.
The Star
10-05-2013
A 26-year-old man was shot in the neck on a street in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. During police patrols after the incident, a man fled from a vehicle which was stopped by police on an estate in the town, dumping a semi-automatic handgun loaded with live rounds nearby where it was recovered by the officers. The man was caught and arrested along with three others who had been travelling in the car, and police recovered a large quantity of Class A drugs in a search of their homes.
This is Local London
09-05-2013
Rakeem Mortley, 18, has been jailed for 10 months in a young offenders' institute for possessing a loaded shotgun at his home in Brockley, south London. Police found the gun hidden under his bed at the property and also recovered a tear gas canister from the pocket of his coat.
Chronicle Live
09-05-2013
Jamie Craggs has been jailed for five years after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing a disguised firearm and one charge of possessing a firearm while prohibited from doing so due to his previous prison sentence at his home in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. He ordered the 5,000,000 volt stun guns that were made to look like mobile phones over the Internet from China, but the packages were intercepted by the UK Border Agency who alerted police, and he was arrested after receiving the weapons. The weapons were found to be capable of incapacitating a person for eight minutes.
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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.