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Evening Standard
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Rod Minchin

Plymouth shooting spree killer Jake Davison was referred to Prevent scheme by his mother, inquest hears

A screengrab of Jake Davison taken from a video posted on Youtube (PA)

(Picture: PA Media)

Mass shooter Jake Davison had been reported to the Government’s counter-terrorism Prevent programme by his own mother months before he applied for a shotgun licence, an inquest heard.

The 22-year-old spree killer’s mother, Maxine, 51, had contacted the multi-agency scheme, which aims to stop people becoming terrorists, in November 2016 with concerns about her son.

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