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History of Gun Violence

By Phil Hazlewood, PA


The deaths of Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare have not stopped gun violence in Birmingham and the West Midlands. The most serious incidents include:

January 2 2003. Letisha Shakespeare, 17, and Charlene Ellis, 18, are killed in a hail of bullets as they attend a New Year party at Uniseven hairdressers in Birchfield Road, Aston, Birmingham. Charlene’s twin Sophia, and 17-year-old Cheryl Shaw are seriously injured.


February 17 2003. Dunstan Williams, 42, of Marsh Hill, Erdington, is jailed for 20 years after shooting a man in the head. A judge at Wolverhampton Crown Court says the attack happened because the victim did not show Williams as much respect as he demanded.

March 17 2003. Shaham Ali, 30, from Acocks Green, Birmingham, is killed in an alleged dispute between factions at Birmingham Central Mosque. His friend, Azmat Yaqub, 35, from Yardley, Birmingham, is injured but is shot dead in August 2004. Two men are later cleared of killing Mr Ali.

April 14 2003. Mohammed Sabir, a 22-year-old father of two from Lozells, Birmingham, is shot dead by a lone gunman who fired a volley of 16 shots outside a kebab house in Lozells Road.

April 17 2003. A 28-year-old father of three is shot several times by three armed men in Bevington Road, Aston. Detectives say they are investigating possible links with the Mohammed Sabir murder.

May 6 2003. Munaf Mohammed, 20, from Lewis Street, Walsall, is shot dead as he sits in a car in the town’s Gladstone Street. Two local men plead guilty to manslaughter in February 2004 at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

June 28 2003. Up to five masked gunmen burst in to Rashid & Co hairdressers on Witton Road, Aston, and open fire. A 21-year-old customer survives after being hit in the head and back. The incident is believed to be linked to rival Asian gangs.

August 15 2003. Daniel Bogle, 19, is shot in the head and chest on Drake Road, Smethwick, and later dies.

August 17 2003. A 17-year-old girl and a 23-year-old woman are shot in the legs outside a house in Ellerton Walk, Park Village, Wolverhampton, during a barbecue. The gunmen drive off in a car.

September 26 2003. Esron Germaine, 19, from Handsworth, is discovered with gunshot wounds to the chest in the Perry Barr area of the city. He dies in hospital five days later. He was shot with an illegally-converted ball-bearing gun. Police investigate gang links.

November 4 2003. Father-of-three Jahanzab Khan, 25, from Lozells, Birmingham, is shot dead on Rupert Street, in nearby Nechells, as he returns home from prayers. The shooting comes just hours before the publication of a report by the all-party parliamentary group on gun crime.

December 27 2003. George Oscar Terralounge, 32, from Handsworth, is shot dead in the early hours outside the Plaza Cafe on George Street, in Lozells, Birmingham. The venue, which police later closed down, has a history of violence. In November 1998, 20-year-old Daniel Brown was shot dead there after treading on a fellow clubber’s foot.

January 18 2004. Shots are fired outside the Premonition nightclub on Bristol Street, Birmingham city centre. A conference on tackling gun crime involving Government ministers and grassroots campaigners opens in the city just hours later.

January 12 2004. Professor Martin Smith, a University of Central England academic and a judge on TV show Robot Wars, has a gun pressed to his head near his flat in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. A gang of up to six youths force him to hand over about £200 in cash and his briefcase.

February 9, 2004. Student Joseph Nwabuko, 28, from Walsall, is shot dead after following three masked men who had just raided a cash delivery from the Nationwide Building Society in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre. Detectives believe he may have been killed because he either saw the robbers’ faces or the numberplate of their getaway car.

May 2 2004. Elijah Fagan, 24, from Alexandra Avenue, Handsworth, is shot dead by a cyclist in Handsworth Close, Handsworth, following a scuffle. He manages to stagger to a children’s playground on nearby Sycamore Road where he is found after collapsing.

May 20 2004. Hayley Davenport, 23, is shot dead at her home in Tansley View, All Saints, Wolverhampton. Her body is discovered after her children, aged two and three, are seen wandering in the street outside. A 31-year-old man is later charged with murder.

June 30 2004. Daniel Miller, 19, of Lones Road, West Bromwich, is killed as he sits in an Alfa Romeo car outside his house. The gunmen, all of whom are masked, escape in a green Rover 200 series. His family claim he is the victim of mistaken identity.

July 20 2004. Adrian Donovan Carberry, 25, of Grosvenor Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, is jailed for life for attempted murder after severely wounding a mother of three during a shoot-out in Aston. Police described Carberry, who also carried out a string of violent car-jackings in the city, as a key member of the the Johnson Crew gang.

July 26 2004. Carjacker Tanvir Hussain, 25, of Foley Road, Ward End, Birmingham, is jailed at the city’s Crown Court for nearly four years after kidnapping two terrified women at gunpoint in their BMW convertible in Sutton Coldfield.

August 22 2004. A 13-year-old boy is made subject to a three-year supervision order, including tagging and a curfew, after admitting attempting to rob a grocer’s shop in West Bromwich when he was 12. The youngster was masked and carrying a 12-bore shotgun.

August 26 2004. Azmat Yaqub, 35, from Yardley, Birmingham, is shot dead by two gunmen as he works out in a weights room at the Chic Physique gym on Formans Road, in the city’s Sparkhill area. He had previously survived a drive-by shooting in March 2003 that killed a friend.

September 4 2004. Narel Sharpe, a trooper with the Queen’s Royal Hussars, is shot dead in Smethwick, West Midlands, after returning from his German base on home-leave. It is thought the 20-year-old’s death is a bungled mugging as his expensive gold necklace is missing. A man is later charged with murder.

September 9 2004. A security guard is shot as he delivers cash to the BP garage in Cronehills Linkway, West Bromwich. He was robbed at gunpoint in February at the Nationwide Building Society in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre. The gang then shot dead a student who may have seen what happened.

October 21 2004. A 30-year-old man, from Hockley, Birmingham, is charged with murdering Ashai Walker, 22, in April 2002. Mr Walker, from Bromford, Birmingham, was shot dead as he sat in a BMW car in the city’s Lee Bank area. Two other men were injured.

November 20 2004. Doorman Ishfaq Ahmed, 24, is shot dead outside the Premonition nightclub in Bristol Street, Birmingham. Five men are later charged with murder.

January 12 2005. Four men are shot in Ruthie’s Place, a Caribbean cafe on Aston Lane, Perry Barr, Birmingham. The gunman, wearing a crash helmet, fired.

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Man shot by police named in court
2 May 2005

A man shot dead by police in a suburban street has been named.

Azelle Rodney, 24, of West London, was in the back seat of a silver Volkswagen Golf which was surrounded by unmarked police cars in Hale Lane, Edgware, north-west London, at 8pm on Saturday night.

Police said he was seen holding a gun and marksmen opened fire in a pre-planned operation.

Two other men who were in the car were arrested and appeared in court today on firearms charges.

Wesley Elijah Lovell, 26, of Cheesemans Terrace, West Kensington, and Frank Cofi Graham, 23, of Clem Attlee Court, Fulham, were both read four charges.

The first alleged that they were in possession of a Colt self-loading pistol and blank and gas-fired convertible weapons with intent to endanger life.

A second charge said they were in possession of ammunition with intent to endanger life, a third that they had a blank Rika pistol with intent to endanger life and a fourth charge that they had a blank key fob-style firearm with intent to endanger life.

Prosecutor Tokes Adesuyan named Mr Rodney in the hearing at Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court in London.

At the mention of Mr Rodney being fatally injured, Lovell, dreadlocked and wearing a grey T-shirt, shook his head and sighed loudly.

There were no applications for bail and their case was adjourned until May 9 when they will appear at Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court in London.

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/PA_NEWA14844221114982277A00006?source=PA%20Feed#

Shooting victim 'had crime history'
3 May 2005

A suspeced drug dealer shot dead by armed police had previously been involved in a shooting in his home, it emerged today.

Azelle Rodney, 24, was shot by officers on Sunday night as he sat in a car which had been stopped by police in Edgware. He and two other men were believed to be on their way to rob and kidnap a drug dealer.

A neighbour said today Mr Rodney had a reputation for gun crime and that he had heard shots fired in his Fulham flat last year. Sunday’s shooting is being
investigated.

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/londonnews/articles/18329896?source=Evening%20Standard

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Is that a gun on your T-shirt, or are you just alarming us?

May 27 2005
Gareth Morgan, Western Mail

STEREOPHONICS frontman Kelly Jones has spoken of his confusion after being stopped from boarding a flight at Heathrow Airport - because the gun print on his T-shirt sparked a security alert.

The Cwmaman-born singer was celebrating yesterday after the band won 10th best album of all time for Performance & Cocktails in a UK-wide poll.

But it also emerged Jones was taken aside by over-vigilant officials after his clothes set off a metal detector.

"It was a strange one. I walked through the metal detectors and took off my belt and phone, but my boots were left beeping," he said.

And Jones was left amazed when told his T-shirt, which showed a pistol, was unsuitable for flying in.

"My T-shirt distracted the guy and he told me that I wasn't supposed to wear it. It had a painting of a gun on it and he started claiming that if the T-shirt was embossed it could be used as something.

"But surely it was more of a concern that my boots were beeping and he hadn't even asked me to take my shoes off!"

Jones said that despite several world tours to promote the band's five albums, he had never come across such a bizarre situation.

"I travel all the time and I've never seen a notice that says you can't wear something on your T-shirt," he added.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=15564076&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=is-that-a-gun-on-your-t-shirt--or-are-you-just-alarming-us--name_page.html

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Doctors' kitchen knives ban call

A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing.
A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.

They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often makes an all too available weapon.

The research is published in the British Medical Journal.

The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all.

They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen.

None of the chefs felt such knives were essential, since the point of a short blade was just as useful when a sharp end was needed.

The researchers said a short pointed knife may cause a substantial superficial wound if used in an assault - but is unlikely to penetrate to inner organs.


In contrast, a pointed long blade pierces the body like "cutting into a ripe melon".

The use of knives is particularly worrying amongst adolescents, say the researchers, reporting that 24% of 16-year-olds have been shown to carry weapons, primarily knives.

The study found links between easy access to domestic knives and violent assault are long established.

French laws in the 17th century decreed that the tips of table and street knives be ground smooth.

A century later, forks and blunt-ended table knives were introduced in the UK in an effort to reduce injuries during arguments in public eating houses.

The researchers say legislation to ban the sale of long pointed knives would be a key step in the fight against violent crime.

"The Home Office is looking for ways to reduce knife crime.

"We suggest that banning the sale of long pointed knives is a sensible and practical measure that would have this effect."

Government response

Home Office spokesperson said there were already extensive restrictions in place to control the sale and possession of knives.

"The law already prohibits the possession of offensive weapons in a public place, and the possession of knives in public without good reason or lawful authority, with the exception of a folding pocket knife with a blade not exceeding three inches.

"Offensive weapons are defined as any weapon designed or adapted to cause injury, or intended by the person possessing them to do so.

"An individual has to demonstrate that he had good reason to possess a knife, for example for fishing, other sporting purposes or as part of his profession (e.g. a chef) in a public place.

"The manufacture, sale and importation of 17 bladed, pointed and other offensive weapons have been banned, in addition to flick knives and gravity knives."

A spokesperson for the Association of Chief Police Officers said: "ACPO supports any move to reduce the number of knife related incidents, however, it is important to consider the practicalities of enforcing such changes."

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/4581871.stm

Published: 2005/05/26 23:48:35 GMT

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Eri kulttuurit ovat yleensä tuhoutuneet kun paras draivi on loppunut asioiden kehittämisestä. Jos tästä voi vetää mitään johtopäätöksiä niin UK vetelee viimeisiään.

Huvittavinta on se, että vaikka ne kieltäisi kaiken niin henkirikokset ei ratkaisevasti vähene jos tekijöillä on halua ottaa joltakulta henki pois.

Seuraavaksi luemme varmaankin "Deadly assault ball-point pens are used increasingly in assault". "There is absolutely no reason for anyone to have a right to carry a metal-bodied assault pen".

Siitä se lähtee.

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Itseasiassa pari vuotta sitten Kakkosesta tuli Markus Kajon sarja "Herrojen metkut" (tms.) jossa englantilainen henkivartija neuvoi lyömään sieppaajaa vaikka metallisella kuulakärkikynällä...

Harry Potter aiheutti tulitaistelun:

Gunfire over 'stolen Potter book'

Two men are being held after shots were fired during what was thought to have been a newspaper deal to buy a stolen copy of the new Harry Potter novel.
Police were called to Tresham Street in Kettering, Northants, on Friday morning after reports a weapon had been fired.

Police said a person "in possession of firearms" had tried to sell a copy of the new Potter novel, but no weapon had yet been found despite a search.

The Sun newspaper said it had intended to obtain the book and inform police.

Surrounding streets were shut as armed officers looked for the gun involved following the incident, a Northamptonshire Police spokesman said.

Two men aged 37 and 19 from Kettering were held, and two books were recovered.

A reporter and photographer met with two men with the intention of obtaining the book so it could be returned to the publisher and the police could be informed

Sun spokesman

The police spokesman said: "A firearms operation was launched at a residential address in Kettering town centre which resulted in two men being arrested on suspicion of theft and firearms offences."

A spokesman for The Sun said the paper had been approached by someone claiming to have a copy of JK Rowling's latest novel.

He said: "A reporter and photographer met with two men with the intention of obtaining the book so it could be returned to the publisher and the police could be informed."

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Rowling's sixth book, is published on 16 July.

It has sparked huge interest because of Rowling's revelation that a major character would be killed off.

Bookmakers were forced to suspend betting on the victim's identity late last month amid fears that the manuscript had been leaked.

Suspicions were aroused because of a string of bets on the death of the Hogwarts head teacher, Professor Dumbledore.

The flurry of bets came from the town of Bungay in Suffolk, where it is thought the book is being printed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/4608197.stm

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Turf wars

Rosie Cowan looks for some answers to British inner-city violence in Graeme McLagan's Guns and Gangs

Saturday June 4, 2005
The Guardian

A young mother shot on her bed as her two children cowered under the mattress, a teenage girl killed by her boyfriend in a deadly game of Russian roulette, a 14-year-old boy gunned down as he queued for a takeaway. These shocking stories are not from some distant battle zone, but happened in modern Britain, where gun crime, particularly so-called "black-on-black" shooting, has forced its way up the police agenda in the past two decades to become the second biggest headache for law enforcement agencies after the terrorist threat.

In Guns and Gangs, Graeme McLagan, an investigative journalist who previously exposed corruption at Scotland Yard in Bent Coppers, turns his focus to this under-reported and under-analysed phenomenon, the reasons behind it and what is being done to combat it.

The statistics are stark. Three-quarters of those murdered or maimed in shootings in London are black, as are 80% of those who pull the triggers. Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and Nottingham are other cities where life is terrifyingly cheap. As Tony Miller, an ex-cocaine dealer interviewed in the book puts it, deadly, high-calibre firearms are as easily available as toothbrushes.

Murders of children, like Toni-Ann Byfield, the seven-year-old killed with her guardian, crack dealer Bertram Byfield, in October 2003, or 14-year-old Danielle Beccan, shot from a car on her way home from a Nottingham fair a year later, make headlines. But the regularity and similarity of the vast majority of shootings involving those caught up in drug and gang wars mean they attract far less media attention, despite the devastation of dozens of families and the catastrophic effect on neighbourhoods and communities.

McLagan traces the trends, from the rise of the Jamaican Yardies and the emergence of large scale crack-cocaine dealing in the late 1980s, to the macho posturing of a new generation of British-born black gangs, whose twisted ideals of "respect" and "revenge" have led to people being shot over the most trivial incidents.

He examines at length the Metropolitan police response, which was initially severely limited by a lack of any real insight into an alienated section of society, but which improved with the setting up, in July 2000, of a specialist unit, Trident. This has achieved considerable success through a combination of better intelligence and working in partnership with the black community.

With unprecedented access to Scotland Yard files, McLagan gives detailed and fascinating accounts of some of the difficult detective work and dangerous undercover operations to catch some of the key players, such as drugs barons Mark Lambie and Owen Clarke.

He explores some theories for the prevalence of gun crime among black British youths. He touches on lack of job prospects, the well-documented but largely unexplained educational failure of many black boys, and the dearth of positive male role models in early childhood. More than half of the black families in the UK are brought up by one parent, overwhelmingly the mother, compared to one in four white families and one in 10 Indians, according to a 2002 Office of National Statistics report.

However, it is the in-depth interviews with three reformed gangsters - Tony Miller, Barrington Foster and Wayne Rowe - that provide the most valuable insights into the social alienation, the thrill-seeking and the seemingly easy profits that propel so many young black men toward crime.

And it is in their candid and chilling accounts that at least part of the solution appears to lie. While senior, white, middle-aged police officers are greeted with sneers and laughter if they try to tell a young black audience why they should turn away from gun crime, the same youngsters are more likely at least to listen to someone like Miller or Foster, who has been at the sharp end and faced the consequences, prison or death.

As McLagan acknowledges, answers are not easy to find. But with a 10% rise in gun crime in the past year nationally and a recent upsurge in London - there were 49 shootings, including three murders, in April, compared to 12 shootings the same month last year - it is vital to keep looking.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,1498472,00.html

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This photo made available in London, Thursday June 9, 2005, by Zoo Magazine, shows Mnchester, England, police officer Rachelle Pantoja, 27, who is under investigation by the Internal Affairs department at Greater Manchester Police, and has been put on restricted duties and transferred to the Traffic Division, after posing for the magazine in a swimsuit.(AP Photo/Zoo Magazine, via pa)

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Father angry over toy gun episode

Armed police threatened to arrest a 10-year-old Wiltshire boy playing cowboys and indians with a toy gun, his father claims.
David Astley says it happened as he was out walking with his wife and two sons in Salisbury on 1 June.

In a letter to the Salisbury Journal, he said one of the officers was very intimidating and left his 10-year-old very distressed.

Wiltshire Police admitted the incident but defended their actions.

'Sharp'

A spokeswoman said two officers were driving along when, out of the corner of their eye, they saw someone waving what appeared to be a gun.

She added that given the recent climate surrounding the issue of imitation firearms, they decided they should stop and investigate, but that no action was taken once it was realised the gun was not real.

Officers explained to the parents that it can present a difficult situation if toy guns are waved in the street.

But Mr Astley said: "One officer spoke sharply to my son and said that he could arrest him, but because he was going off duty it would be too much paper work.

"We have always told our children the police are here to help us. But I think our son finds that hard to believe at the moment."

Police said Mr Astley was welcome to lodge a formal complaint.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4080796.stm

Published: 2005/06/10 12:57:55 GMT

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Ei oo vissiin Engklannin poikien toy guneissa punaista piipun nokassa. Jenkeissähän saattaa tulla poliisin toimesta tapetuksi jos heiluu sub urbsien pihoilla leikkiaseen kanssa jossa ei ole sitä punaista piipun nokassa.

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Armed police stormed the headquarters of a notorious gang that has been terrorising London with guns and samurai swords.

By Rob Singh And Justin Davenport, Evening Standard
24 June 2005



In a huge operation just before midnight, officers swooped on three leaders of the gang in a north London cafe.

The group - known as the Tottenham Boys - are suspected of waging a campaign of terror, carrying out at least 15 armed robberies as well as committing rapes.

The Turkish-speaking gang members used handguns and swords as they targeted snooker halls, internet cafes and "working flats" of prostitutes. Police are also investigating links to organised drug trafficking and extortion rackets.

Victims had guns held to their heads and samurai swords and kebab knives put to their throats.

The three arrested are aged between 23 and 26 and were being questioned at north London police stations this morning. Police also recovered drugs and ammunition during the raid.

The gang - described as a "pack of wolves" by a senior detective - preyed on the vulnerable, at first targeting people within their own Turkish community before widening their campaign of attacks across north London.

Previous prosecutions against the men are understood to have failed because of the threats against victims' and witness' families at home and abroad.

Police said the men's " tentacles" spread as far as northern Turkey and Cyprus and they saw themselves within the community as "untouchable".

Just before midnight last night officers, including members of the specialist SO19 firearms unit carrying rifles(ASSault Weapons), pistols, stun guns and pyrotechnic grenades, burst into an anonymous-looking cafe in Hornsey Road, Islington.

The cafe which has no name and is between an internet cafe and newsagents, has a pool table, gambling machines and a counter used as a bar.

The armed officers, clad in black and wearing balaclavas and helmets, burst in through the front and back of the brightly-lit cafes residents watched the drama unfold.

Plain-clothed officers held down the men and they were restrained face-down on the floor with plastic handcuffs. Uniformed officers then searched the men.

Ambulance crews were on standby but no shots were fired and there were no injuries.

The raid was codenamed Operation Berryville and was the culmination of a fourweek long investigation.

The head of the operation, Detective Chief Inspector Neil Hibberd, from the Serious Crime Directorate, said other members of the Tottenham Boys would soon be caught.

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/19510614?source=Evening%20Standard

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Uskoisin että jos UK karkottaisi miehet Turkkiin niin kyseiset pojat todennäköisesti saisivat "isän kädestä" ja vähän muutakin turkkilaisessa vankilassa. En tiedä mahdollistaako UK:n laki karkotuksia mutta kannattaisi ainakin harkita.

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Sehän loukkaisi pikku gangstereitten ihmisoikeuksia...

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Englannin ja Kuningaskunnan laki ei onneksi varsinaisesti tunnusta ihmisten olemassaoloa tai heille mahdollisesti kuuluvia oikeuksia. Heillä kun laki puhuu subjekteistä, ei ihmisistä tai kansalaisista. Sitä tosin en osaa sanoa onko vierasmaalainen subject (kruunun alamainen) vai foreigner. Veikkaisin että foreignerin oikeudet ei UK:ssa ainakaan ole paremmat kuin subjectin.

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"Olummppialaiset" annettiin näköjään juuri oikeaan maahan:

Coe discovers that Olympic shooting events are 'illegal'

By Oliver Marre

Published: 17 August 2005

"Less than two months after he was victorious in securing the Olympic Games for the capital, Lord Coe has met his first major setback. It turns out that three of the pistol-shooting events are outlawed under legislation passed in 1997, bizarrely making it illegal for the British team to train on home soil.

According to an article due to appear in the next issue of The Field magazine, the law even calls into question whether the events - the 50-metre men's, the rapid fire, and the women's 25-metre - will be permitted during the Olympics themselves.

A shooting lobby group, the Sportsman's Association, has written to the International Olympic Committee, calling on them to campaign for a change in the law, which dates from the Dunblane high school murders.

"Please use what influence you can to persuade the British Government to amend the two Firearms Acts of 1997," reads their letter. "So that the British people may, in line with the Olympic ideal, prepare themselves properly for the Olympic Games."

According to a spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, there is unlikely to be any such change.

However, he points out that the Firearms Act will allow the home secretary of the day to make a special allowance for the duration of the Games. "It's true that they can't train or practise in this country," he admits.

"But the Home Secretary has indicated that the events will take place for the Olympics themselves."

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/pandora/article306421.ece