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.
Danny Brennan and Jamie Wright held a man at gunpoint and threatened to shoot him when they tried to rob him in Portsmouth in July 2009. The victim handed over his mobile phone. Brennan was on bail for attempted robbery at the time and has been sentenced to six years after pleading guilty to possession of an imitation firearm and robbery. Wright, who was serving a suspended sentence at the time of the robbery, will serve five years after admitting the same offences and the cultivation of a cannabis plant.
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Two men armed with a gun attacked a man during the robbery of his home in Greenwich, south London. The balaclava-clad pair entered the property through an open window and demanded cash from the man and his girlfriend, who opened their safe and gave the assailants an expensive watch. When the victim refused to hand over the luxury watch on his wrist, the assailants hit him round the head with a pistol, tied him and his girlfriend up, and escaped with the watch from his wrist, other watches, mobile phones, a tablet, and credit cards from the flat. The couple managed to free themselves and call police, but the male victim was left with a minor head injury for which he required treatment in hospital. The robbers were later captured on CCTV using the stolen credit cards in Peckham, south London and police have appealed for information.
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StokeonTrentLive
Arron Kesic, aged 32, has been jailed for twelve months after pleading guilty to possession of a prohibited weapon. After a neighbour called police about noises coming from his home, Kesic posted a video of a gun and ammunition on a social media site, alongside the threatening message, “He is getting it.” After the neighbour notified police of the threat, officers broke into Kesic’s home in Stoke, Staffordshire and recovered a handgun designed to discharge gas and four cartridges.
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Lancashire Telegraph
A man who was boarding up a window on the back of a property in Burnley, Lancashire, was shot in the face with an airgun. The pellet hit him in the face and lodged in his temple. The pellet has yet to be removed while doctors decide what action to take.
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Evening Standard
A handicapped man who is alleged to have been kept as a slave for the amusement of a family before they chopped off his head and dumped his body in a lake in Arlesey, Bedfordshire, suffered a decade of abuse. He was burnt, beaten and his body had airgun pellets in it when taken from the lake. Four people, two brothers and their girlfriends, all deny murder. The parents of the brothers deny causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable adult.
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SomersetLive
After pleading guilty to knowingly having in her possession materials for making an explosive, namely gunpowder, and possessing a firearm without a firearm certificate, 43-year-old Erin Forley, from Yeovil, Somerset was handed a suspended nine-month prison sentence with 30 days of rehabilitation with probation. Forley was arrested after being found in possession of dangerous chemicals and an antique flintlock pistol, dating from 1870. The weapon, though not illegal, does require a licence. The court heard that Forley suffered from complex PTSD and had bought the items with the intention of taking her own life.
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South Wales Argus
Ryan Lewis, 20, has been sentenced to 15 months in an institute for young offenders for possession an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear or violence and intimidating a witness. He waved a gun, now believed to be a ball-bearing gun, in the air at a family who had gathered outside their home after an object was thrown through their window in Beechwood, Newport, in August 2009. Lewis was drunk and accused them of throwing a brick through his window. The police were called and found an air pistol and ball-bearing gun at his home.
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The Star
A 15-year-old boy was shot in the eye with a pellet from a ball bearing gun as he walked along a street in Langold, Nottinghamshire. The pellet scratched his cornea.
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Police recovered a gun from the banks of the River Avon in Bristol after it was spotted by a member of the public. Click on media link to read full report.
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