HE BEAT US & GOT A LET-OFF
JAKE Davison was let off by police five years ago when he attacked a pregnant woman and her partner.
We can reveal the maniac set upon Scott Hobbs, 25, and girlfriend Sherrie close to where he shot dead five people on Thursday evening.
He then mounted a relentless campaign of harassment which forced Scott and Sherrie to move house.
He told the terrified couple: “I’m going to get a gun on to you.”
Davison, who was 17 at the time, was NOT arrested and escaped with a warning, Scott said last night.
He said: “The officers didn’t seem to take it very seriously.
“If they had and logged it as a proper assault surely it should have flagged that when he applied for his gun licence?
“I wish now I’d pressed harder for the police to do something about it. I feel like if I had, maybe this wouldn’t have happened.”
Fearing
Scott said
Davison hit him
15 times during a horrifying unprovoked attack outside a
Tesco store, right, which is now being redeveloped as flats.
And he knocked over Sherrie, sending her flying on to her stomach, and leaving her fearing she could lose her unborn baby.
But, despite Scott being sent to hospital in an ambulance and him reporting the attack and harassment campaign to police, he says officers never took any action against Davison and assured him the future mass killer “was nothing to worry about”.
Scott and Sherrie’s revelation adds to mounting criticism for Devon and Cornwall Police’s handling of Davison.
The force was already facing a probe over stripping Davison of his shotgun licence before handing it back to him.
Last night when asked about the 2016 incident, a force spokesman said: “The circumstances surrounding Jake Davison’s shotgun certificate, and any information Devon and Cornwall Police had relating to him, are now the subject of an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct. We are therefore unable to comment.”