THE detective who investigated the assault of an innocent 16-year-old boy by Jake Davison did not know he had a legally held shotgun, an inquest heard last Friday.
Detective Constable Pablo Beckhurst was investigating the attack and had seen Davison had the initials "FC" allocated to him on the police national computer, but did not know that it meant he held a firearms certificate.
The confusion meant staff in Devon and Cornwall Police's firearms licensing unit were not told of the September 2020 assault until the following November, and only after he had been placed on a restorative justice programme.
Det Con Beckhurst told the inquest in Exeter: "I was unfamiliar with the warning marker, FC, and my obligations in the policy to take action on it.
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