UK teen who planned massacre jailed for life
A UK teenager who killed three family members and planned to outdo notorious US massacres to become "the world's most famous school shooter of the 21st century" was on Wednesday jailed for a minimum of 49 years.
Nicholas Prosper, 18 at the time of the killings, used a shotgun to kill his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, sister Giselle, 13, and brother Kyle, 16, who also received more than 100 knife wounds, at their home in Luton, north of London, in September 2024.
"Your ambition was notoriety. You wanted to be known posthumously as the world's most famous school shooter of the 21st century," judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said on Wednesday as she sentenced the now 19-year-old.
Prosper told police upon his arrest of his "Friday the 13th" plan to also kill dozens of four- and five-year-old pupils and two teachers at a nearby primary school that he had previously attended, then himself.
He said his aim was to conduct an attack more deadly than the US Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech massacres.
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