19-year-old student murdered his mother, brother and sister

A teenager shot his mother and two siblings to death at their family home.

Nicholas Prosper,19, had been due to go on trial next week following the murder of his mother Juliana, 48, sister Giselle, 13, and brother Kyle, 16, on September 13 last year. He previously denied murder.

However, he intensely pleaded guilty during a six-minute hearing at Luton Crown Court this afternoon.

He also acknowledged buying a firearm – a 12-ball Nikko shotgun – without a certificate the day before he struck.

Prosper entered a single guilty plea to each of the three murder charges. He also pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life, and being in possession of a kitchen knife when he was caught by police after carrying out the atrocity, a short distance away on Bramingham Road. He is due to be sentenced over two days next week.

Prosper was remanded back into custody until he is sentenced next week before His Honour Judge Michael Simon.

A woman who lived above Prosper and his family stated she thought she heard the screaming of a woman followed by a gunshot and then other loud noises.

She said: ‘It sounded like a gun. It was around 5.15am maybe – it was completely silent, I was in my bathroom doing my make up.’

Adding that, ‘Suddenly I hear a scream – a woman’s scream. Nobody else. It was strange, especially at this time of day.

‘There was silence. Then I hear some furniture falling or something like that, for maybe ten seconds. Then nothing.

‘I heard a gun fire before the scream – I think it was a woman.’

Meanwhile, a friend of Prosper’s mother, Juliana told reporters that ‘She was a super-intelligent woman and she was a very dedicated mother to her children, so I find no consolation or explanation for what happened.’