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Teenage killer case exposes ‘major system failure’ in gun laws

The Government has pledged to urgently look at tightening ‘deep and long-standing weaknesses in the private sale of firearms’.

Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2025

Triple murderer planned killings and school shooting for more than a year

Nicholas Prosper plotted to target the youngest children at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Luton after murdering his mother and two siblings.

Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2025

Violence-obsessed teen Nicholas Prosper who shot family and plotted school massacre jailed for 49 years

Nicholas Prosper brutally murdered his mother, brother and sister and plotted to shoot at least 30 schoolchildren

The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025

OPINION - I've been deep inside dystopian incel forums and Adolescence is as real as you fear

In the summer of 2021, a 22-year-old man named Jake Davison walked out into the streets of Plymouth and shot four people with a pump-action shotgun. He had already killed his own mother with the same gun, moments before. His victims included a three-year-old girl and her 43-year-old father. He…

Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2025

Arizona is scheduled to execute its first death row prisoner in more than 2 years

Arizona is scheduled to execute its first prisoner in more than two years

The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025

Alabama lawmakers approve a ban on devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns

Alabama lawmakers approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns

The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025

Triple murderer who was plotting school massacre to be sentenced

Nicholas Prosper will appear at Luton Crown Court on Wednesday for the second day of his sentencing hearing.

Evening Standard · Mar 19, 2025

Grandfather killed in McDonald’s shootout while buying Happy Meals for his grandkids

Jorge Arbaiza, 61, walked into restaurant in Houston to pick up meals when two groups inside got into fight

The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2025

Texas Man Spent Nearly Two Decades in Jail Without Trial Before Getting Murder Charges Dismissed

Edric Wilson was cleared of a murder charge after spending nearly 20 years in the overcrowded and underfunded Harris County Jail in Texas.

Latin Times · Mar 18, 2025

‘I don’t want him executed. I want him to suffer:’ Murder victim’s family speaks out ahead of death row inmate’s execution

Aaron Gunches is scheduled to be executed in Arizona on Wednesday morning

The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2025