reuters
Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:41 PM BST
LONDON (Reuters) - A 27-year-old man was jailed for 13 years on Tuesday for murdering a toddler in Glasgow with an airgun.
Two-year-old Andrew Morton died in March after being hit in the head with an airgun pellet as he watched a fire engine near his home in the Easterhouse area of the city.
Mark Bonini was sentenced at Glasgow's High Court after being found guilty of murder earlier this month.
He had admitted firing the shot which killed the toddler but denied murder.
The killing received widespread media coverage in Britain and prompted calls by Morton's family for airguns to be banned.
The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland held an amnesty for people to hand in airguns and local media said more than 1,000 weapons were turned in.
The family have said they will continue their campaign for a total ban.
"He (Bonini) is an animal, he's a menace to society," Morton's mother Sharon McMillan told reporters after the guilty verdict. "But he can't harm any more children now."
