Cadet force schoolboy, 16, at top private school found dead 'after shooting himself with his father's gun'

A teenage boy found dead after apparently shooting himself with his father's gun was a member of a school's cadet force which trains youngsters how to fire semi-automatic rifles, it emerged today. Charlie Booth, 16, was found at the home he shares with his father, Nicholas, 52, the director of a farm equipment supplier, and marketing assistant mother Julia, 48, in Cobham, Kent. Police confirmed his death was not being treated as suspicious, but would not say whether it was an accident or suicide. The gun is believed to be licensed and Kent Police say they are not making any inquiries into the ownership of the weapon. Charlie was a Year 11 pupil at £10,000-a year Gad's Hill School, based at the former home of Charles Dickens in Higham, Kent.

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