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 man held up a shop in Teddington at gunpoint. The man pulled out a silver gun and demanded the till be opened. He tool £140.
2008/1/26
Liverpool Echo
A man was shot in the back as he tried to escape a gunman he had confronted on his doorstep in Speke, Merseyside. The hooded gunman had smashed down the victim's front door believing him to be in his house. The weapon is believed to have been a low-calibre shotgun.
2008/1/26
BBC
Two men are in hospital after being shot on a housing estate in Preston. Their injuries were not life-threatening. Two men have been charged with attempted murder and a third man has faced charges of unlawfully possessing two shotguns without a certificate (BBC, 7 March 2008). A number of men have received custodial sentences (see March 2009 Incidents).
2008/1/25
Evening Telegraph (Peterborough)
Two women were robbed at gunpoint in The Meadows area of Nottingham They were approached by two men who pulled open the doors of their car and grabbed a bag containing cash. Both men were armed with handguns.
2008/1/25
Bromsgrove Standard
Teenager Darren Irish fired a ball-bearing gun at two women pensioners as they visited a site in Sidemoor, Bromsgrove. One of the victims was left with a ball-bearing lodged in her arm because it was too difficult to remove. The other woman was hit in the shoulder. Irish who had been drinking pleaded guilty to two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm. He was sentenced to 18 months detention.
2008/1/25
Daily Post
A former head of a police firearms unit is claiming he was unfairly sacked by North Wales Police after he pleaded guilty in January 2007 to having ammunition he was not licensed to keep. Neil Smith, who had held a gun licence since 1974, was given a 12-month conditional discharge after the professional standards unit found 40 rounds of .22-calibre "stinger" ammunition designed to expand on impact at his home in Rhuddlan.
2008/1/25
Wigan Evening Post
A man committed suicide by stabbing himself after being terrorised by yobs who repeatedly fired a ball-bearing gun at his home in Pemberton. At the man's inquest a container of yellow ball bearings was produced by his father.
2008/1/24
Skelmersdale Advertiser
A 19-year-old who fired an air rifle pellet at a bus in the Digmoor area of Skelmersdale has been arrested and given a final warning. He was one of several people targeted during a campaign to clampdown on bus vandalism following a spate of incidents in recent weeks.
2008/1/24
Lincolnshire Echo
Figures obtained by the paper reveal that the number of people injured by guns in Lincolnshire trebled over five years. Sixty people were injured in 2004/05 but 55 of the incidents involved air rifles and BB guns. The majority of the victims (56) were not seriously injured. Half of those wounded were children under 15.
2008/1/24
Huddersfield Daily Examiner
A report in the paper, which describes complaints by Jeanette Fill about a lack of police response to an assault on her, reveals that she had threatened to shoot herself outside Huddersfield police station in December 2006. She pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm (a ball bearing gun) in a public place. She had spent 10 weeks in prison on remand and was then given a 51-week prison sentence suspended for two years for this offence and for threatening to destroy or damage property at a garage.
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