Suicide by air rifle ?

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A local man 2 miles from me committed suicide with an air rifle and not by shooting himself in the tummy!!! He was caught with a younger girl and same situation threatened to kill himself with the guns he had (SGC and FAC) the police took these guns but not the air rifle he had later that day he shot himself 3 times in the roof of his mouth!!!.....Was in the Shropshire star

 

 

Steve

[hw97 8]

dunno lol... it's a simple concept made dyslexicaly big

haha tellin ya

[Dan_Jones 7]

Why the stomach :wacko: Glad i didn't hunt with him doesnt sound like he was a good shot ..

[ghillies 209]

it's a coman thing to do with the deranged state their heads in..like rist cutting or the preverbial rope-n-chair thing.. just a cominality.

[Guest Mass_G3nocide]

Former miner used air rifle to shoot himself

Tuesday, November 04, 2008, 11:30

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A DEPRESSED ex-miner died after he shot himself in the stomach with an air rifle.

Ian Brotherhood called the ambulance service after firing the weapon while his elderly parents slept.

An inquest heard how the 47-year-old had threatened to shoot himself with the air rifle two months before.

At the time, police tried to seize the weapon but a licence is not needed to own one.

Coroner Dr Robert Hunter yesterday pledged to write to the Home Secretary to request a review of the laws relating to licences for air rifles.

said: "I don't think people appreciate they can cause serious injuries."

The hearing was told how Mr Brotherhood started drinking heavily after he was injured in an industrial accident, lost his job at the pits and was divorced.

He first threatened to shoot himself on April 22 this year and was detained for an assessment under the Mental Health Act. Derby Coroner's Court heard that police tried to persuade him to give up the weapon, but he refused.

Mr Brotherhood went on to shoot himself in his bedroom at his parents' house in Westfield Road, Swadlincote, on June 15. He later died at Burton's Queen's Hospital.

A statement from Mr Brotherhood's mother, Sylvia, who was asleep downstairs with her husband, Kenneth, when the shot was fired, was read out at Derby Coroner's Court yesterday.

She said her son had married 18 years ago and had a daughter, who was now 25, but that the marriage had broken down 15 years ago.

After the separation he moved in with his parents.

"He never got over the break-up of his marriage," she said.

Mrs Brotherhood said she had seen her son the evening before the shooting, but was not woken by the shot.

"He had been drinking as usual that evening," she said.

"He was in his bedroom watching TV. He came downstairs to get some sandwiches. He seemed quite happy."

She said because of ill health, she and her husband slept downstairs and she was awakened by a police officer shining a torch through the window.

One of the first officers on the scene was PC Paul Simmons, of Derbyshire police's armed response unit.

He said he found Mr Brotherhood lying on his bed with a puncture wound in his stomach.

PC Simmons said that anyone aged over 18 could buy an air rifle, and that a licence was not needed to own one.

"In my personal opinion I think a licence should be required," he said.

Dr Nigel Starey, Mr Brotherhood's GP, said his patient had been involved in an industrial accident in 1998.

He suffered noise-induced hearing loss, pulmonary disease, a disease to his knee and had become alcohol-dependent and depressed.

Dr David Green, consultant pathologist at Derby City General Hospital, said the cause of death was shock and haemorrhage due to a gunshot wound and alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, which he said would have affected the blood's ability to clot.

Dr Hunter recorded a verdict of suicide

 

 

It has to be an accident as if you was gonna commit suicide wouldnt you shoot yourself in the face or head?

[McSparkie 0]

surely if the police felt that he was a danger to him self or the public they could have taken the weapon??

if he had been threatening to stab him self i bet they would have cleared the house of knives and sharp objects quicker than you could say "public safety"

why couldnt some one just have said sorry chap but i dont think your in the right frame of mind to have that air gun, we'll keep it safe for you for now!

but then i guess that would have been common sense!

cheers

hyperion

 

Oh, you are on thin ice here mate! 'Common Sense' and 'Police' only three lines apart. I suppose the plod only do as they are told in these cases and someone with more 'training' should have pressed a panic button somewhere. But as per usual no-one wants the blame for making a bad call, bla, bla.

[Malt 379]

SAD SAD SAD situation !! but then lifes a bitch sometimes, just look on the bright side its not one of us !!!!!!!

ANYWAY ......do anyone know if his gun is for sale ?????

 

That's a typically Welsh piece of black humour there matey!