Plymouth shooter’s sister and brother criticise failure to toughen gun laws Government under pressure to reform licensing system, with one MP describing it as ‘a thicket’ The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2023
Britain’s gun laws could be tightened following ‘catastrophic’ failings that enabled Plymouth shooting Home secretary will be ‘failing in her duty to protect the public’ if laws are not changed, families say The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2023
Plymouth gunman beat boy after being called ‘fat’ - year before killing five people Police briefly confiscated legally-held shotgun from 22-year-old before handing it back to him – ahead of fatal shooting spree which saw him kill his own mother The Independent UK · Feb 21, 2023
Plymouth victims’ families demand law change after claim ‘catastrophic failures’ handed gunman Jake Davison licence to kill’ They spoke out after an inquest jury found there was a ‘seriously unsafe culture’ in Devon and Cornwall Police’s firearms licensing unit Evening Standard · Feb 20, 2023
Keyham families demand firearms law changes after ‘catastrophic failures’ They spoke out after an inquest jury found there was a ‘seriously unsafe culture’ in Devon and Cornwall Police’s firearms licensing unit The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023
Calls for radical reform of gun laws after Plymouth shooting ‘Catastrophic’ failings that allowed gunman to kill five people increase pressure to overhaul 1968 legislation The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023
Plymouth shooter Jake Davison ‘searched for incel serial killers online’ days before massacre Motivation for mass shooting, which was not declared a terror attack, to be examined at new inquest The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023
‘Complete overhaul’ of gun licensing needed in UK after Plymouth shooting, victims’ families say Inquest jury warns that ‘catastrophic’ failures that let Jake Davison have a gun are seen nationwide The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023
‘Catastrophic failings’ at gun licence unit, but no officers or staff lose jobs The Independent Office for Police Conduct said that one member of Devon and Cornwall police staff received a written warning. The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023
‘Unsafe culture’ in police firearms unit before Keyham shooting – inquest jury Jake Davison shot dead four adults and a child in an eight-minute rampage in Keyham, Plymouth, on August 12 2021. The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023
Families of gunman Jake Davison's victims say he was given 'licence to kill' An inquest found the five victims to have been unlawfully killed by Davison Wales Online · Feb 20, 2023
Families of Plymouth shooting victims hit out at ‘series of failings’ that led to ‘act of pure evil’ ‘Warning signs were ignored and a licence to kill was granted’ The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023
Virgin loner Jake Davison was obsessed with guns Davison likened himself Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character from the Terminator films The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023
Plymouth shooting: burst of savagery that began with an attack on a mother Many tears have been shed during inquest into what happened when Jake Davison went on rampage The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023
The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023 Beloved victims of Keyham massacre will be greatly missed Pen portraits of Maxine Davison, Sophie Martyn, her father Lee, Stephen Washington and Kate Shepherd were read at their inquests
The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023 Should UK’s firearms laws be tightened further? Questions have been raised again about whether enough is done to stop guns legally ending up in the hands of the wrong people.
The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023 Keyham timeline: eight minutes of violence left five dead Jake Davison’s rampage came after he left work at the dockyard.
Evening Standard · Feb 20, 2023 Victims of Keyham gunman Jake Davison were unlawfully killed, says inquest jury Jake Davison killed his mother and then shot dead Sophie Martyn, three, her father Lee, Stephen Washington and Kate Shepherd before killing himself
The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023 The mistakes made in giving Jake Davison a shotgun licence The inquest jury heard of blunders made.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023 Plymouth shooting: victims’ families hit out at ‘police failings’ after unlawful killing verdict Relatives at inquest say Jake Davison should not have been granted gun licence with known history of violence
The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023 ‘Act of pure evil’ changed our lives forever, say Keyham families They said Jake Davison was ‘facilitated and enabled by a series of failings and incompetence’ from those ‘supposed to keep us safe’.
Daily Mirror · Feb 20, 2023 Moment Plymouth gunman beats boy - before police give him gun back to go on massacre CCTV captured Jake Davison attacking an innocent 16-year-old boy less than a year before he mercilessly shot five people dead in Plymouth
The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023 ‘Licence to kill’: Victims’ families hit out at police failings that led to ‘pure evil’ Plymouth incel gunman killing five people Police were already aware Jake Davison had a history of violence and knew that aged 12 he had assaulted two teachers
The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2023 Jury retires in Keyham shootings inquests Jake Davison killed his mother and four others, including a three-year-old girl, with a shotgun in Plymouth in August 2021 before shooting himself.
The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2023 Senior officer apologises over decision to grant gun licence to Keyham shooter Jake Davison killed five people in Keyham, Plymouth, in August 2021.