British teenager who killed family and planned school massacre gets 49 years
Toriann Ellis / Our Today
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Nicholas Prosper, a 19-year-old British national who murdered his mother and two siblings and plotted to carry out a school shooting for “notoriety”, will spend at least 49 years behind bars.
Prosper pleaded guilty to killing his mother Juliana Falcon, his 13-year-old sister Giselle and 16-year-old brother Kyle at the family’s apartment in Luton, a commuter town north of London, in September 2024.
It is reported that he also admitted to purchasing a shotgun illegally with the intent to attack a local primary school on Friday the 13th.
The case has alarmed British authorities, with the UK government on Wednesday saying it would look at how to tighten regulations on the private sale of guns.
At his sentencing on Wednesday (March 19), Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb said Prosper had wanted to “be known posthumously as the world’s most famous school shooter of the 21st century.”
She ordered he spend 49 years in prison before being eligible for parole and opted not to hand him a life sentence because he was 18 when he committed the offences and had pleaded guilty.
Judge Cheema-Grubb said Prosper had wanted to kill dozens of four- and five-year-old pupils and two teachers at his former primary school.
After his arrest, Prosper told police his aim was to conduct an attack more deadly than the US Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech massacres, but that the plan was interrupted when his mother woke up before he could kill his family in their sleep.
The judge said Prosper’s 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 killings.
The court was told that Prosper, who had been unable to stay in education or hold down a job, had managed to forge a gun license and used it to buy a shotgun and 100 cartridges from a legitimate firearms dealer the day before the murders.
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