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Tougher gun laws introduced after Keyham and Woodmancote shootings

Police officers will be instructed to interview partners or other household members of people applying for a firearms licence.

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2025

Domestic abusers to be banned from owning guns after string of shootings

The guidance directly addresses concerns from coroners and campaigners following recent fatal shootings in Sussex and Devon

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2025

Plymouth residents return home as WW2 bomb removed and taken out to sea after one of biggest evacuations since war

The bomb was taken by military convoy from a garden in the Keyham area to the Torpoint Ferry slipway to be disposed of at sea

Evening Standard · Feb 23, 2024

Coroner calls for ‘root and branch’ reform of gun laws after Keyham tragedy

Ian Arrow, the senior coroner for Plymouth, said the 50-year-old Firearms Act was at ‘odds with public safety’.

The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2023

'Terrifying' warning guns are in wrong hands as MP tells of constituent in hiding

The government is under pressure to tighten gun laws after the conclusion of an inquest into the killings in Keyham, Plymouth, by evil Jake Davison, as Labour MP Rachael Maskell said a woman in her constituency has been forced into hiding

Daily Mirror · Feb 21, 2023

Keyham families demand firearms law changes after ‘catastrophic failures’

They spoke out after an inquest jury found there was a ‘seriously unsafe culture’ in Devon and Cornwall Police’s firearms licensing unit

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023

‘Unsafe culture’ in police firearms unit before Keyham shooting – inquest jury

Jake Davison shot dead four adults and a child in an eight-minute rampage in Keyham, Plymouth, on August 12 2021.

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023

Should UK’s firearms laws be tightened further?

Questions have been raised again about whether enough is done to stop guns legally ending up in the hands of the wrong people.

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023

Victims of Keyham gunman Jake Davison were unlawfully killed, says inquest jury

Jake Davison killed his mother and then shot dead Sophie Martyn, three, her father Lee, Stephen Washington and Kate Shepherd before killing himself

Evening Standard · Feb 20, 2023

‘Act of pure evil’ changed our lives forever, say Keyham families

They said Jake Davison was ‘facilitated and enabled by a series of failings and incompetence’ from those ‘supposed to keep us safe’.

The Independent UK · Feb 20, 2023