Crime commissioner calls for national database after Nicholas Prosper, 19, bought shotgun by forging firearms licence

Gun controls are set to be tightened after a teenager who bought a shotgun by forging a firearms licence was jailed for life for murdering his family and planning a school massacre.

The full details of Nicholas Prosper’s failed plot to storm a morning assembly at his old school and kill 30 children in a bid to become famous for being the worst mass murderer in British history were made public this week.