Her dad brought it back from World War II. In the UK, the laws are strict accountability: if you have a handgun, that's all that matters. 5 year minimum sentence.A grandmother has been jailed for five years for possessing a "family heirloom" World War II pistol.
Gail Cochrane, 53, had kept the gun for 29 years following the death of her father, who had been in the Royal Navy.
Police found the weapon, a Browning self-loading pistol, during a search of her home in Dundee while looking for her son.
She admitted illegal possession of the firearm, an offence with a minimum five-year jail term under Scots law.
Defence solicitor advocate Jack Brown argued that the circumstances surrounding the case were exceptional and that it would be "draconian, unjust and disproportionate" to jail the grandmother-of-six.Hey, at least the UK can breathe a sigh or relief that there's one fewer granny to terrorize the streets.
Mindless obeyance of protocol rather than original thought... The English are turning into Vogons.
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Needs to be titled FORMERLY Great Britain.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad to see that Monty Python was so visionary. Seriously. Sad.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sad, sick, and disgusting little nation England has become.
ReplyDeleteMay they rot in the hell of their own making.
Err, that was the porridge eaters, not the English.
ReplyDeleteTrue, the firearms acts cover both, but the national socialists north of the border have their own seperate legal system, and their parish council / assembly has passed its own minimum sentence regs.
The whole case stinks.
ps, files from the procurator fiscal (scottish state prosecutor) relating to thomas hamilton (the paedophile who murdered 6 year olds in 1997) were put under 100 year closure order. Now why would that be done if there was nothing to hide?