British teenager who killed family gets minimum 49 years in prison

A 19yearold British man who shot and killed his mother and two younger siblings and who wanted to carry out a highprofile school shooting was told Wednesday he will not be eligible for parole for at least 49 yearsAt the sentencing hearing at Luton Crown Court Justice Bobbie CheemaGrubb said she had considered handing Nicholas Prosper a full life sentence in prison but opted against that given his age mdash he was 18 at the time of the shootings mdash and the fact that he had pleaded guiltyLast month Prosper admitted at a hearing to murdering his mother Juliana Falcon 48 13yearold sister Giselle Prosper and brother Kyle Prosper aged 16 at the apartment the family shared in Luton Bedfordshire on September 13 2024 He had also stabbed his brother more than 100 timesThe judge said Prosper had wanted to emulate and outdo atrocities around the world including the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December 2012 when 26 people mostly children were killed and the mass shooting at Virginia Tech in April 2007 when 30 people were killedYour ambition was notoriety she told Prosper who had to be forced to come to the court to hear his fate You wanted to be known posthumously as the worlds most famous school shooter of the 21st centuryThe judge said Prospers case featured many recurrent themes seen in school shootings around the world including a sexual interest in children a withdrawal into an online world a lack of empathy towards victims and the selection of a uniform for the killingsThe court was told that Prosper who had been unable to stay in education or hold down a job had been planning the attack on his family and his old elementary school in the United Kingdom on Friday the 13th mdash the date was no accident with Prosper thinking it would give him even more notorietyHe managed to forge a gun license in the United Kingdom and used it to buy a shotgun and 100 cartridges from a legitimate firearms dealer the day before the murdersProsper had intended to kill his family in their sleep but his mother had woken up and after realising something was terribly wrong a struggle ensuedAfter shooting his mother Prosper left a copy of the novel How to Kill Your Family on her legs before shooting his sister as she hid under a table and then stabbing and shooting his brotherThe lives of your own mother and younger brother and sister were to be collateral damage on the way to fulfil your ambition the judge saidShe added that Prosper appeared cheerful and had blood on his hands clothes and glasses when he was picked up by police in a nearby street after the attack had been reported by a neighbourBedfordshire Police Detective Superintendent Rob Hall read a statement on behalf of Prospers father Raymond in which he said the deaths of his expartner Juliana and his son Kyle and daughter Giselle had much more meaning and importanceTheir deaths and the fast response of Bedfordshire Police stopped any other family in the community going through the pain we have suffered said RaymondThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever