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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rod Minchin

‘Unsafe culture’ in police firearms unit before Keyham shooting – inquest jury

PA Media

Keyham gunman Jake Davison was granted “a licence to kill” because of failures in a police licensing unit, his victims’ families said as an inquest jury found there was a “seriously unsafe culture” in the department.

In just eight minutes Davison killed his mother Maxine, 51, and then shot dead three-year-old Sophie Martyn, her father Lee, 43, Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66.

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