A man who shot dead five people in eight minutes in the English city of Plymouth before taking his own life was given a “licence to kill” by incompetent police officers, the families of his victims have claimed.
On Aug. 12, 2021, Jake Davison, 22, shot dead his mother Maxine, 51, at their home in the Keyham area of the city. Armed with a shotgun, he then left the house and walked through the area, killing three-year-old Sophie Martyn, her father Lee, 43, Stephen Washington, 59, and Kate Shepherd, 66.
Last month the inquest heard that Davison used his penultimate cartridge to kill himself just as the first police cars arrived at the scene….