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British teenager who killed family and planned school massacre gets minimum 49 years in prison

Britain Family Killer - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A 19-year-old British man who shot and killed his mother and two younger siblings and who wanted to carry out a high-profile school shooting was told Wednesday he will not be eligible for parole for at least 49 years.

At the sentencing hearing at Luton Crown Court, Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said she had considered handing Nicholas Prosper a full life sentence in prison but opted against that given his age — he was 18 at the time of the shootings — and the fact that he had pleaded guilty,

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