Unflagged firearms licence holder with deteriorating mental health
Home Office received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 25 Mar 2015 and 10 Feb 2026.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Home Office was found for the earlier reports.
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“Although his mental health was clearly deteriorating neither the GP or NEPT referred this case to Essex Police Firearms Department.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Home Office was found for this report.
- 10 years 11 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“Firearms Legislation relating to the holding of a shotgun or firearms licence (or both) contains no provision that a person holding a certificate must self report any illness or mental health condition”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:Firearmsmentalhealth
Home Office responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2015 → 2026Samuel Dickinson10 years 11 months after Harold Ambrose · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight a gap in communication between health services and firearms licensing regarding mental health changes that could affect firearm safety. The earlier case focuses on missing GP-to-police notification; the later case points to absent legal duties for self‑reporting and GP recording/reporting.
Harold Ambrose · 25 Mar 2015
“Although his mental health was clearly deteriorating neither the GP or NEPT referred this case to Essex Police Firearms Department.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Samuel Dickinson · 10 Feb 2026
“Firearms Legislation relating to the holding of a shotgun or firearms licence (or both) contains no provision that a person holding a certificate must self report any illness or mental health condition”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Home Office was found for this report.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Home Office at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2026 | 0.75 | 0.19 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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