Mother of child killed in Sandy Hook shooting 'proud' of Obama

The mother of a child killed in the Sandy Hook shooting said she is "proud" of President Obama for tightening gun controls.

Nicole Hockley – the mother of Dylan Hockley, a six-year-old shot in the Sandy Hook massacre - said she couldn't understand why anyone would oppose the gun laws.

Ms Hockley said: "I feel like I've been waiting for these words for almost three years now and it still not enough. We still have a lot of steps that need to be taken to save more lives."

She added: "I'm very proud of our president for keeping his commitment to us that he made three years ago when we lost our children."

She said it was not the first time she had seen Obama cry and it wasn't the "first or last time she had cried".