The sister of a mother killed in a triple shooting has called for harder arms laws in the aftermath of the Nicholas Prosper case, asking: “How many murders does it take?”
Emma Ambler dedicated her life to rifle reform After her twin sister Kelly Fitzgibbons, 40 was shot by her partner Rob Needham, who was shot in bed in bed.
The depressive 42-year-old, who succeeded in getting a firearm license by lying against the police, hiding his criminal record and cocaine addiction, the gun then turned on its own.
Now Mrs. Ambler writes to the Minister of the Interior to demand urgent changes in the laws of arms, and says that the horrible shotgun of Nicholas Prosper has uncovered how easy it is to get a deadly weapon in the UK.
The 19-year-old spent months investigating firearms and was able to dupe a pensioner to sell him a £ 600 shotgun by presenting a fake fire watch certificate that he had copied from real versions online.
A day later, the loner launched a bloody mission last September to get the most famous murderer in history by shooting his mother and brothers and sisters before he commits a massacre at school.
This week, Prosper was imprisoned for 49 years after the police had imprisoned the triple murderer because he was on his way to shoot a class of four and five-year-old children.
Yesterday, Mrs. Ambler accused the ministers of ignoring relatives and corpses who demanded reforms after striking things such as Plymouth -Schutter Jake Davison who shot his mother and four strangers in 2021 and the shooting at the former Epsom College teacher Emma Pattison in 2023.
Emma Ambler (left) has devoted her life to rifle reform after her twin sister Kelly Fitzgibbons, 40 was shot by her partner Rob Needham
Nicholas Prosper pleaded guilty at the Luton Crown Court on the murders on Juliana Falcon, 48, Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16
This is the shotgun that the murderer used in the triple murder
“I don't feel that relatives families like us are really taken seriously,” she said.
'There have been recommendations from my sister's research and from the Plymouth and Epsom studies that the entire system must assess.
'But for some reason I don't think it is seen as a priority, because it is terrible to say, but maybe there are not enough arms murders.
“But how many murders are needed?
'How many people have to die before someone actually makes changes.
“The laws just have to be much tighter, so that the people who are not responsible, who have terrible intentions, are unable to buy weapons from the boot of a car in a parking lot without anyone knowing it.”
The 45-year-old, who set up the charity of Kelly Fitzgibbons Foundation in her sister's memory, added: 'You can get weapons too easily in this country.
'If Rob Needham could not have obtained a gun, my family would live.
Mrs. Ambler has set up the charity of Kelly Fitzgibbons Foundation in her sister's memory
Kelly Fitzgibbons, the four -year -old Ava Needham and the two -year -old Lexi Needham were found dead at their house
This week, Prosper was imprisoned for 49 years for killing Mrs. Falcon (center), Giselle (right) and Kyle (left)
'Likewise in this case, a mother and her children have been lost and can continue to flower and all these children wipe out at a school because these weapons are so easily available.
'I feel really angry, the system is outdated.
“There seem to be no guarantees if you can just copy something online and meet someone in a parking lot and buy a gun within a few minutes.”
Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner John Tizard has written to Yvette Cooper who is called for a national database with firearm license holders, so that their sellers can check whether their buyer has a real certificate with the police prior to each sale.
Currently, weapons can be traded privately without official checks if the buyer is able to produce a real -looking paper firearm certificate.
The law only states the police must be informed within seven days of the sale of a weapon.
Yesterday, Professor Peter Squires, a spokesperson for the weapon control network, said: 'Regardless of the fact that Prosper has forged a weapon permit, no healthy country would not allow for a single healthy country to sell monitoring in a parking space.
'We consider the US as the Land or Gun Crazy, but you can't buy a gun there without undergoing a background check and the arms sale is under the supervision of a legitimate federal firearm dealer.
“There must be a broader and more search for research by the license application and the research into social media to ensure that they are not wannabe mass killers such as Prosper and Jake Robinson in Plymouth.”
