Nicholas Prosper’s father was overwhelmed with emotions in court as his son was sentenced to 49 years in prison for the brutal murder of his mother and siblings in a triple homicide.
Raymond Prosper uncontrollably sobbed as he heard the horrific details of how his son shot his sister, brother, and mother in the head.
Even after the horrific incident, the father remained supportive of his son, expressing his love during the initial court appearance following the tragedy. He reassured Nicholas by saying, “I still love you, son. It’s not your fault, okay?”
The family residence in Luton was transformed into a scene of horror when the 19-year-old callously shot his mother, Juliana Falcon, 48, with a shotgun. He then turned the weapon on his terrified 13-year-old sister, Giselle, who was hiding under a table at the time of the attack.
His brother Kyle, 16, was stabbed in a frenzied attack and had more than 100 knife wounds.
Prosper had placed a novel called ‘How To Kill Your Family’ by his mother’s legs.
His murderous plans to slaughter 30 children at his former primary school in a bid to become Britain’s worst mass killer was ‘prevented by chance and circumstance alone’.
He was spotted on the roadside by a passing police car that stopped to investigate after he held a bloodied fist aloft in a kind of salute.
Raymond Prosper, the father of triple killer Nicholas Prosper, uncontrollably sobbed as he heard the horrific details of how his son shot his sister, brother, and mother in the head
Teenage triple killer Nicholas Prosper menacingly poses with the plank of wood as though it is a firearm shortly before he went to use a shotgun to murder his family and try to kill 30 children
Juliana Falcon, 48, was shot dead by her own son on September 13 last year
Evil Prosper shot his terrified younger sibling Giselle, 13, (left) as she hid under a table, while his brother Kyle, 16, (right) was stabbed in a frenzied attack and had more than 100 knife wounds
The sadistic teen was today sentenced to life in prison and told he must serve at least 49 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole.
Yesterday, Prosper’s father said in a harrowing victim impact statement that ‘part of my soul died’ on the day of the killings.
He said: ‘The pain of our loss will never be healed. This includes my whole family; our lives will never be the same.
‘For me personally, when I heard the horrific news on that day, part of my soul died too. This is a lose-lose situation for us all and we have lost four family members.
‘We would like to thank the police for their thorough investigation and for supporting us through this difficult time.
‘We would also like to thank the wider community who have been tremendously supportive and generous with donations to help with funeral arrangements.
‘We know that this awful incident has affected others as well as ourselves, but we now want to be able to grieve and to try and move on as a family in private.’
He today broke down in tears on numerous occasions and wept as he was led out of court.
This is the moment Prosper was arrested by police before he could launch his school massacre
The killer teen is cuffed by officers, after being found less than a mile from his old school. Spots of blood are still on his hands
Prosper’s relationship with his father had become ‘strained’ following the breakdown of his parents’ marriage.
The court heard today Prosper ‘wanted to be famous’ as the biggest mass murderer in the world.
After killing his mother and siblings he set off towards his old primary school armed with a loaded shotgun, a kitchen knife and a bag of ammunition, to continue his killing spree.
He intended to shoot at least 30 of the youngest pupils and teachers at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School as the school day started at 9am.
But Prosper was stopped by police by chance as he was on his way to carry out the school massacre, his hands still covered in blood.
Dressed in a yellow and black tracksuit reminiscent of Uma Thurman’s trained assassin in the movie Kill Bill, Prosper was less than a mile from the school when he was spotted by two officers.
The killing spree took place on September 13 last year. The defendant first gunned down his mother Juliana, shooting her with a single shot to the top of her head as she attempted to fight off her son, with her bloodied body later found in the hallway.
Nicholas Prosper admitted murdering his family members (pictured left to right) Kyle, Juliana and Giselle. He remained emotionless during the hearing in February
Prosper pictured in Luton Crown Court on Tuesday in an artist’s impression for the first of his two-day sentencing hearing
Prosper’s next victim is believed to have been his younger brother Kyle. He was found close to his slain mother, having been stabbed over 100 times – with knife wounds piercing his lungs, arms and legs, before the 16-year-old was shot in the head.
Ruthless killer Prosper then turned his attention to his sister Giselle, shooting her in the eye while she cowered under the dining room table in the living room.
In a video filmed before the killings, the serial killer had warned ‘my sister’s face will be mutilated further than is necessary’.
Appearing at his sentencing hearing today, the teen showed no emotion in the dock as the court heard he craved notoriety and wanted to ‘kill all’ – and had even admitted to a prison nurse days after his rampage: ‘I wish I had killed more.’
Prosper had a sordid dream of outdoing the death toll of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in the US, in which 32 people were murdered, the court heard.
Prosper launched his killing spree at 5.30am, when neighbours living next to the family home in Leabank Court, were awoken by the sounds of a disturbance followed by gunshots.
When officers arrived, they discovered a scene of carnage, with the killer leaving his bloody handprints everywhere.
In a matter of minutes, the teenager shot his family six times after carrying out a test shot on a teddy bear.
The teen gunman is seen here during his interview with detectives following the murder of his mother, and younger siblings
The smirking wannabe school shooter was caught on camera after purchasing his shotgun
Pictured is the shotgun used by Prosper to murder his mother, sister and brother
Police found Prosper’s shotgun hidden in a bush about 200m from where he was caught
Judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told Prosper he intended to become known as one of the world’s ‘worst school shooters’.
Sentencing the ‘remorseless’ triple killer to a life sentence with a minimum term of 49 years, the judge told him: ‘You intended to unleash disaster on the community of Luton. Your plans were intelligent, calculating and selfish.
‘Your ambition was notoriety. You wanted to be known posthumously as the world’s most famous school shooter of the 21st century.
‘The lives of your own mother and younger brother and sister were to be collateral damage on the way to fulfil your ambition.’
Prosper sat with his head in his hands as he was sentenced and appeared emotionless throughout. He refused to stand as he was jailed.
Although the judge dismissed issuing a whole life order, she warned the callous killer he ‘may be too dangerous to ever be released’.
Jailing the ‘remorseless’ killer for life with a minimum term of 48 years, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told Prosper he intended to ‘unleash destruction’ on a community to become known as one of the world’s ‘worst school shooters’
In a chilling foreshadowing of the horrors that were to come, Prosper, wearing his distinctive yellow bucket hat, filmed himself pretending a piece of wood was a shotgun
‘Words such as heartless and brutal are insufficient to describe the horror of the last moments of those closest to you,’ the judge told him.
She added: ‘You acted during hours of darkness on people who had been asleep in their own home. A 13-year-old child was shot in the face while hiding under a table, a 16-year-old child was shot in the chest after being stabbed with a knife or knives… before being shot to the head.
‘Each victim suffered the anguish of anticipating or being aware of the deaths of others.’
She continued: ‘There is no suggestion that you didn’t understand the law or that killing people was morally wrong – you just didn’t care.’
