Plymouth shooting: police force says sorry for issuing licence to gunman

Jake Davison should never have been allowed to have shotgun, Devon and Cornwall police tell inquest

The police force that issued the Plymouth gunman Jake Davison with a shotgun certificate has said he should never have been allowed to have the weapon and apologised in public for the first time to his victims' families.

Devon and Cornwall police also said Davison, who had a history of violence and an obsession with weapons from an early age, should certainly" not have been given his shotgun back after it was confiscated when he attacked two children the year before the shootings.