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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lizzie Dearden

‘I hate my school’: why are more British teenagers plotting shooting attacks?

Nicholas Prosper, who shot dead his mother, younger brother and sister in their family home last year. Police believe he was plotting a shooting at the primary school he attended as a child.
Nicholas Prosper, who shot dead his mother, younger brother and sister in their family home last year. Police believe he was plotting a shooting at the primary school he attended as a child. Photograph: Screengrab

On the morning of 13 September, 18-year-old Nicholas Prosper was arrested while walking on a residential road in Luton. Minutes before, he had murdered his mother, younger brother and sister, shooting them dead in their family home.

Neighbours called police after hearing gunfire coming from the flat in Leabank tower, on Luton’s Marsh Farm estate, and officers found Prosper shortly afterwards on Bramingham Road. Later that day, searches of the area uncovered a loaded shotgun and more than 30 cartridges hidden in a nearby bush.

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