Plymouth shooting: Victims were unlawfully killed

Five radical changeable by a gunman successful Plymouth were unlawfully killed, an inquest assemblage has concluded.

Jake Davison killed his parent and 4 different people, including a three-year-old girl, with a pump-action shotgun successful Plymouth successful August 2021.

Jurors astatine a five-week inquest held astatine Exeter Racecourse gave their conclusions connected Monday.

Jurors said the deaths were "caused by the information the perpetrator had a legally-held shotgun".

Davison killed his parent Maxine, 51, Sophie Martyn, three, her begetter Lee, 43, Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66, successful the Keyham country of Plymouth earlier turning the weapon connected himself.

Delivering a communicative decision the assemblage foreman said: "There was a superior nonaccomplishment by Devon and Cornwall Police's firearms and explosive licensing portion successful granting and aboriginal failing to revoke the perpetrator's shotgun licence."

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