"My mum got caught in the crossfire" - UK Gun Culture, BBC article

"As the government announces more cash to help communities tackle gun crime, BBC News Online traces one man's journey through Britain's gun culture...

When Michael was 21, his mother was shot in the chest while lying in her bed.

The police officers who raided Cherry Groce's Brixton home in the early hours of 28 September 1985 were trying to arrest her son, Michael, in connection with an armed robbery - and they suspected, rightly, that he would be armed. But Michael was not at home, and in the confusion one of the officers, Insp Douglas Lovelock, shot Cherry...

A major review of Metropolitan Police gun policy after the incident led to a ban on CID detectives carrying firearms.The new guidelines said only centrally controlled specialist squads - such as Special Branch - would be armed."

From:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3706789.stm

I'm not really drawing any conclusions from the whole piece - I just thought that it might be an interesting addition to the views of UK gun culture on here.