The Infer Trust makes every effort to record and categorise the firearms incidents reported in the UK but we recognise that it is not a complete record.
If you are aware of a gun incident which is not listed please notify us. You can do this by either sending us the link for an on line report, or a hard copy of a press article to our address.
A cat has suffered injuries to its neck and mouth after it was shot in the garden of a house in Binscombe, near Godalming in Surrey. The offenders are believed to have gone to the back of the house and shot the cat in the right side of the neck. The cat was shot with an air rifle and has since died (Surrey Advertiser, 25 March 2008).
2008/3/3
Ilford Recorder
Two men were gunned down at a bar in Ilford. One suffered wounds to the front of his body and the other sustained injuries to the back of his body. Both men's conditions have been described as stable by police. One of the men has since died in hospital (East London & West Essex Guardian, 5 March 2008).
2008/3/3
Herts Advertiser
An armed robber held up staff of a St Albans hotel at gunpoint and made off with a sum of money.
2008/3/3
Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough)
Eighteen-year-old Bradley Moralee threatened a woman in a street in Guisborough with an imitation gun in March 2007 (see Incidents). He said "give me your purse or I'll put a bullet in your head". He was also seem to point the ball bearing gun (a realistic replica of a Desert Eagle handgun) at two passing cars. He will be sentenced at a Crown Court for possession of an imitation firearm and a public order act of affray.
2008/3/3
East Anglian Daily Times
Claims that a shot broke a windscreen on a train near Marks Tey in Essex have not been confirmed by the police of Network Rail. A passenger had reported seeing a hole in the window and being told by the driver that the train had been shot at.
2008/3/3
BBC
Firearms were recovered from a house in Hamworthy, Poole, where a woman's body was found after a fire. A man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.
2008/3/3
BBC
Three men have been arrested in connection with drugs and firearms offences. Police searched a house in Lincoln after a member of the public reported having a gun waved in his face.
2008/3/3
BBC
A man was shot in the head and critically hurt outside a nightclub in Harlesden, north-west London. He and a friend had become involved in an argument with another man close to the club. Two teenagers face two counts of possession of a firearm with intent to danger life and have also been charged with one count of causing grievous bodily harm and taking and driving away a vehicle (BBC, 9 March 2008).
2008/3/2
BBC
Police hold firearms amnesty (including fake and replica guns)
2008/3/2
BBC
Two men fled with £1000 after threatening a delivery driver with a stun gun in Ormesby, Middlesbrough. The driver dropped his cash bag when one of the men brandished the weapon.
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