‘Nagged’ boy shot mother
NZPA London A schoolboy gunned down his mother because she nagged him, a British court was told.
Michael Taylor, aged 14, loaded his father’s singlebarrel shotgun and blasted his mother Doreen at almost point-blank range.
As Mrs Taylor lay on the floor, her son ignored her pleas for help. and walked out of the house, Warwick Crown Court was told.
Mrs Taylor survived the attack after two emergency operations.
The prosecutor, Nicholas Jarman, said that the boy had been suspended from school for persistent troublemaking. Then, after a quarrel with his mother, the boy shot her. Surgeons had to remove one-third of her stomach and took 20 pieces of lead shot from the wounds.
The boy told the police he shot his mother because he was fed up with being nagged.
As the boy sobbed in the dock, the defence laywer, John Riley, said: “He is not a young man without feeling. I think that shows."
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