A triple murderer who killed three members of his family and was plotting a school shooting has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years. Nicholas Prosper, 19, from Luton, who wanted to become a notorious mass murderer, was sentenced at Luton Crown Court on Wednesday. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:0019-year-old Nicholas Prosper wanted to be known as the world's most famous school shooter
00:07of the 21st century. Today, he was told he will spend at least 49 years in prison for
00:13the murder of three of his family members.
00:16Prosper killed his mother, 48-year-old Juliana Falcon, his 16-year-old brother Kyle, and
00:23his 13-year-old sister Giselle with a shotgun at the family's home in Luton on Friday
00:28the 13th of September last year. He had carried out a test shot on this teddy bear in his
00:34bedroom before launching the attack.
00:37You planned a school shooting on a scale that you hoped would make you globally notorious.
00:46You explicitly sought to emulate and outdo Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old American who shot
00:54dead 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut,
01:02in 2012 before shooting himself to avoid capture.
01:08You aimed for 34 deaths, one more than the deadliest school shooting of recent times
01:15in the United States of America at Virginia Tech in 2007. Your plans failed because your
01:22mother woke up and realised you had a gun and were determined to use it. This led to
01:29a horrific triple shotgun murder with each victim dying, knowing you had killed or intended
01:36to kill the others.
01:38Prosper had spent months meticulously plotting to carry out a massacre of four and five-year-olds
01:44at his former primary school. After killing his family, Prosper hid for just over two
01:51hours before flagging down police officers in a nearby street and showing them where
01:56he had hidden the loaded shotgun and 33 cartridges near playing fields.
02:01At a hearing last month at Luton Crown Court, Prosper admitted three counts of murder as
02:07well as purchasing a shotgun without a certificate, possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger
02:12life, and possession of a kitchen knife in a public place. Today, the 19-year-old refused
02:19to stand in the dock as he was sentenced.
02:21I was told at 8.45 this morning that you were refusing to attend court. I ordered that you
02:29had to be brought. You do not want to be here, but it is not your choice. You have to face
02:37the consequences of your actions, to hear the court's sentence passed in public, and
02:45it is important for those who loved your victims to see you sentenced.
02:51The teenager's then-undiagnosed autism spectrum disorder meant he could not stay in mainstream
02:56education or hold down a job, and he became increasingly isolated, spending more time
03:02online and becoming obsessed with school shootings. A forensic psychiatrist said he had an extreme
03:08lack of empathy and remorse, which were psychopathic tendencies.
03:13Today, the judge explained that Prosper's age, immaturity and undiagnosed autism meant
03:18he didn't qualify for a whole life order. However, Mrs Justice Chima Grubb told him
03:24that he is highly dangerous and may never be released.