The police force that issued the Plymouth gunman Jake Davison with a shotgun certificate has said he should never have been allowed to have the weapon and apologised in public for the first time to his victims’ families.
Devon and Cornwall police also said Davison, who had a history of violence and an obsession with weapons from an early age, should “certainly” not have been given his shotgun back after it was confiscated when he attacked two children the year before the shootings.
