Infer Trust - Gun Incidents

2012/9/13	BBC News
Vehicles have been damaged in four separate incidents of vandalism in Culloden, Inverness with what police believe to be an air gun.
2012/9/13	Cambridge News
A cat was shot twice with an air rifle in Coveney, Cambridgeshire. The 3-year-old pet survived the attack but one of the pellets lodged in her chest and she required surgery.
2012/9/13	Herne Bay Times
A cat has died after it was shot in the leg and back with an airgun in Herne Bay, Kent. He was also targeted in an incident six months earlier in which another car was killed by being shot with an airgun. As a result of both attacks, he was left with four pellets in his body and a broken leg and had to be put down. A few days later another cat was shot in the area, but survived the incident.
2012/9/13	This is Hull and East Riding
An 11-year-old cat has been shot dead in the village of Brough, East Yorkshire with a shotgun. The bullet shattered his leg and he had to be put down because the injury was inoperable.
2012/9/12	Oxford Mail
Thomas Parry has received a year-long suspended sentence and 200 hours unpaid work for possessing an automatic pistol at his home in Bicester, Oxfordshire. Police responding to reports of a domestic incident found the gun, which Parry claimed he was hiding for a man who had dealt him cannabis, in a bedside cabinet. The pistol was discovered in early 2010 but Parry, who was 17 at the time, could not be charged until recently because an officer originally identified the gun as a legal starter pistol.
2012/9/12	Liverpool Echo
Billy Doran has pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and Kyle Feeney has pleaded guilty to possession of an air-powered weapon in Kirkdale, Merseyside. The 18-year-olds approached a group of school children during a PE lesson and Doran held a BB gun and demanded they "pass the ball or I'll blow your head off". The pair attempted to flee the scene in a taxi, and pointed the imitation weapon at the driver when he refused them service. They boarded a bus but were arrested by police called to the scene. Doran received a 9-month suspended young offenders' sentence with 12 months supervision and 100 hours of unpaid work, and Feeney received a 12-month community order and mandatory thinking skills programme.
2012/9/12	The Telegraph
The coroner has recorded an open verdict in an inquest into the death of Charles Harbord, the 68-year-old father of one of Prince Harry's friends, in May (see May incidents). His body was discovered with one of two shotguns belonging to his daughters that were kept in a case in the family home and a shotgun wound to the chest. The inquest found that Harbord inflicted the injuries that led to his death in Gillingham, Dorset but that evidence of his intentions was only circumstantial.
2012/9/12	This is Lincolnshire
An armed man has threatened staff at a bank in Spilsby, Lincolnshire. He used what was believed to be a gun to demand money from staff. He was unsuccessful and fled but was caught on CCTV.
2012/9/12	Knutsford Guardian
An 8-year-old cat has been shot with an air rifle in Knutsford, Cheshire. His front leg had to be amputated after the pellet shattered the bone.
2012/9/11	Evening Chronicle
Stuart McDonald has been jailed for 5 years for possession of a firearm that led to a 4-hour siege by police in South Gosforth, Tyne and Wear. Armed officers were called when he took a shotgun, a rifle and ammunition that he had been ordered to keep to his mother's house. McDonald had been acting strangely earlier in the day, crying, drinking heavily and watering plants with bleach and was on licence from a previous 5-year sentence for robbery. He was arrested after protracted negotiations.

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