Teenager who killed his family and planned school massacre jailed for 49 years

A teenager desperate for notoriety who shot his own family and plotted to massacre four-year-olds in their school classroom has been jailed for life with a minimum of 49 years.

- AMY-CLARE MARTIN

Nicholas Prosper was 18 when he murdered his mother, brother and sister in September last year as part of a horrifying plan to become the deadliest mass killer in history. He will be 67 years old before he is considered for release. He was spared a rare whole-life order for the murders, which he carried out with a shotgun he purchased with a forged licence.

His mother Juliana Falcon, 48, was found with a gunshot wound to the head following the early-morning attack in their flat in Luton, along with his younger sister Giselle Prosper, 13, who was sheltering under a dining table. His brother Kyle Prosper, 16, was shot in the chest and head and also suffered over 100 knife wounds. A judge told him he is highly dangerous, and that he will never be released unless experts deem he no longer poses a risk to society.

Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said: “You intended to unleash disaster on the community of Luton. Your plans were intelligent, calculated and selfish. Your ambition was notoriety. You wanted to be known posthumously as the world’s most famous school shooter of the 21st century.

“The lives of your own mother and younger brother and sister were to be collateral damage on the way to fulfil your ambition."

She added: “Words such as ‘heartless’ and ‘brutal’ are insufficient to describe the horror of those last moments of the people who were closest to you.”