Home secretary says Nicholas Prosper case ‘exposed deep and longstanding weaknesses in private firearms sales’

The government is to look at tightening gun controls 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 notorious as the worst mass murderer in British history were made public this week.