Gun laws in the UK could be overhauled after a father blasted his partner and their two young children to death with a shotgun during lockdown last year.
Robert Needham, 42, shot daughter Ava, four, in the chest and his two-year-old daughter Lexi in the head.
He also shot his partner Kelly Fitzgibbons, 40, in the head and neck at their £600,000 home in West Sussex.
Robert Needham (left) killed his partner Kelly Fitzgibbons and their two children, Ava, four and Lexi, two (also pictured)
Needham is pictured with Ms Fitzgibbons. Their bodies were found at their the family home in Woodmancote, West Sussex
Mr Needham is then believed to have shot himself in the head.
All four were found dead at the detached property in the quiet village of Woodmancote in the evening of Sunday March 29, 2020 - just a week after lockdown was imposed.
Today, a coroner said procedures around issuing firearms certificates in the UK would be examined as part of an inquest into the tragic deaths.
Penelope Schofield, coroner for West Sussex, said she would call the Home Office to give evidence at the inquest.
And she also laid out plans to call the chief constables of Hampshire and Sussex whose forces dealt with his previous firearms licence applications.
Mr Needham, a builder, was last handed a firearms certificate in 2017.
If any faults are identified with current firearms procedures the coroner could write to the Home Office recommending changes in order to prevent future deaths.
The inquest will also
