BREAKING: Police reinstated Plymouth shooter's gun licence last month after revoking it
A gunman who killed five people including his own mother and a three-year-old girl during a rampage had his shotgun certificate taken away in December.
Devon and Cornwall Police will now face an investigation from the Independent Office for Police Conduct over the events leading to yesterday’s attack Using what witnesses described as a ‘pump-action shotgun’, he murdered Sophie Martyn, three, alongside her father Lee Martyn, 43, in front of horrified onlookers.
Since then it has emerged that his shotgun certificate was taken away from him in September 2020 following an allegation of assault.The Independent Office for Police Conduct regional director David Ford said: ‘We can confirm that this morning we received a mandatory referral from Devon and Cornwall Police relating to yesterday’s tragic events in Plymouth in which six people lost their lives.
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