Tony Perrin has been jailed for four months after pleading guilty to posting a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character contrary to the Communications Act 2003 from his home in Norbury, south London. After the murder of a soldier in Woolwich, Perrin posted a picture of himself on social media site Facebook in which he was wearing a balaclava and pointing an imitation gun at the camera. In the post he threatened, "I will do a lot worse than what took place yesterday and I have like minded people behind me" and incited others to also commit "acts of insane violence" and take "revenge" on Muslims.

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has reported that only a few police forces in England and Wales are adequately updating records of firearms and ammunition found at crime scenes in the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (Nabis) database. In one case a very serious gun incident was not entered into the database for over four months. In 2011/12, two-thirds of all police forces did not enter any details about gun crimes into Nabis, claiming that this was duplicating other records. The report suggested that a lack of proper, consistent records meant that "forensic opportunities are being missed”.

Police have recovered a sawn-off shotgun and ammunition during raids of a house in Luton, Bedfordshire. The weapon had reportedly been stolen two years previously from the home of its legal owner in Hertfordshire, and a 19-year-old man was arrested on a suspicion of possessing a section one firearm and ammunition.

Keith Codrington, 43, has been handed a hospital order and a restraining order after he assaulted his neighbour with a gun in Cambridge. Codrington carried out the attack after he had reduced his medication for bipolar disorder, approaching the victim as he sat in his taxi. He accused him of causing his brother’s death in Afghanistan and for interfering with his post before pointing an imitation handgun at the victim and using it to pistol-whip him across the face, causing his fractured nose to bleed severely. The victim was left with a collapsed septum and unable to smell.

Daniel Bidace has been jailed for a minimum of 42 years for murdering a man and shooting his disabled fiancée at their home in West Ealing, west London. Bidace made the victim kneel down in his living room before shooting him execution style and attempted to kill his fiancée as she lay in bed but left her with a shoulder wound when the gun jammed after two shots. The victim survived her injuries and was later able to identified Bidace as the shooter.

Keenon Jones, 19, and Colin Skyers, 20, have been jailed for a total of 35 years for possessing drugs and firearms at a block of flats in Dulwich, east London and a man and a woman were also sentenced for drugs and firearms charges. Police recovered loaded guns, included one that had been used in two non-fatal gang-related shootings and £40,000 worth of heroin, cocaine, and cannabis in during raids on properties in the building.

Ciaran Bainbridge, 17, has been given a community payback order with two years of supervision and 300 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to carrying out an armed robbery with a BB gun at a newsagents in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire. Bainbridge used an imitation Glock semi-automatic pistol to demand cash and escaped with £130. He jumped over a fence and ran along a railway line but police who were called to the scene shouted to him, found Bainbridge lying in undergrowth in a churchyard close by, and arrested him. He was said to be suffering from stress after the suicide of his father and the imminent death of his paternal grandmother.

David Robertson Mackay has been fined £450 for possessing a .270 Mannlicher Butt Action Rifle and ammunition for which he did not have a firearms certificate while out searching for vermin near Melvich, Sutherland. He and his passenger were stopped by police under suspicion that their Land Rover did not have a current MOT certificate, and denied that there was a gun in the vehicle. A search uncovered the hidden weapon, seven rounds of ammunition and a discharged cartridge, for which neither man had a certificate as it belonged to Mackay's brother. The owner of the rifle is now also under investigation to determine his own suitability to hold a firearms certificate.

A security guard was allegedly robbed outside a pub in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire by a group armed with an imitation gun who escaped with £3,911. Three men have been arrested and charged with robbery and possession of an imitation handgun, but the weapon has not been found and police have appealed for information.

A security guard was assaulted by a group of men armed with a shotgun and a sledgehammer when they attacked his van outside a supermarket in Leigh, Greater Manchester. The masked robbers hit the victim on the head with the sledgehammer and escaped with a significant amount of money from the cash box in a stolen car, which they abandoned, and another vehicle. The victim was spared serious injury because he was wearing a helmet at the time.