Nicholas Prosper: Triple killer who planned school shooting is jailed for 49 years |
A teenage triple killer who murdered his family and then planned to stage the deadliest school shooting in history has been jailed for a minimum of 49 years.
Nicholas Prosper, 19, illegally bought a shotgun and ammunition the day before shooting dead his mother, brother and sister at their home in Luton.
Two hours later he was arrested by passing officers who saw him behaving strangely and found him spattered with blood, and Prosper then led him to where he had stashed a shotgun and 33 cartridges.
Plans later found by police – described by investigators as “credible” – showed that he intended to go to his former school to kill 30 children, two teachers and himself, which would have become the deadliest ever school shooting.
At Luton Crown Court on Tuesday, Prosper was jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years.
She declined to impose a whole-life order, citing the fact his plan had been “thwarted”, his guilty pleas, and his age at the time of the offences.
She said the minimum sentence had to increased “very significantly” from the starting point of 30 years.
“However, you remain highly dangerous and it may be that you are never released,” she added.
