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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Steven Morris and agency

Mother of Plymouth shooter reported him to Prevent anti-terror scheme

Floral tributes next to a tree with police in background
Floral tributes left in Keyham, Plymouth, Devon, in August 2021 after Jake Davison shot and killed five people. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

The mother of Jake Davison, who shot her and four other people dead in Plymouth, Devon, had reported him to the government’s counter-terrorism Prevent programme months before he applied for a shotgun licence, a coroner has heard.

Maxine Davison, 51, contacted the programme in November 2016 with concerns about her son but Davison applied for a shotgun certificate in July 2017 and a certificate was issued to him in January 2018.

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