Plymouth gunman’s father tells inquest he warned police about shotgun licence

Father says he tried to stop Jake Davison getting firearm and alerted authorities about son's volatile environment'

The father of the Plymouth gunman Jake Davison said he tried to warn police not to give his son a shotgun licence because he lived in a volatile environment".

Davison used a pump-action Weatherby shotgun to kill five people on 12 August 2021 in the Keyham area of the city before turning the gun on himself. He killed his mother, Maxine, 51, after a row at their home before shooting dead Sophie Martyn, three, her father, Lee, 43, Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66.