Grandmother Faces Five Years for 80 year old pistol
"A GRANDMOTHER is facing a five-year jail sentence for keeping a handgun, her late father's war memento, in her home.
The pistol passed to Gail Cochrane, 53, when her father, a former Royal Navy serviceman, died almost 30 years ago, a court heard yesterday.However, it is a prohibited weapon under laws introduced in the wake of the Dunblane massacre, and official authority is required to possess it."
Why this horrible, evil women isn't being sentenced to prison for 10 years is beyond me. Guns are ONLY tools of murder, afterall. By possessing this gun, she is no doubt a ticking time bomb waiting to carry out a drive-by shooting or similar.
This site is a piss-take, right? Given that she didn't have any ammunition for it, and because there's no evidence of criminal intent, I'd say it was unlikely that she'd get a custodial sentence, despite the so-called minimum sentence being 5 years. That was another piece of Labour idiocy. Fortunately judges have discretion to impose a lesser sentence, which they usually do unless there is evidence of criminal intent.
ReplyDelete"Fortunately judges have discretion to impose a lesser sentence, which they usually do unless there is evidence of criminal intent."
ReplyDeleteNot entirely. Normally, only a year or two is knocked off and only if there are apparent 'extraordinary circumstances' present.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/7964280.stm
Three years for accidentally shipping firearm back from the US:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260004/Gunman-jailed-years-posing-picture-automatic-pistol.html
5 years for a licensed shooter who happened to have a few firearms not covered by his license:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6905852/Pensioner-jailed-for-hoarding-Aladdins-cave-of-firearms.html
Five years for firearm enthusiast:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260004/Gunman-jailed-years-posing-picture-automatic-pistol.html
If I lived in the UK, I'd move.
ReplyDeleteIf I couldn't move, I'd kill myself.
You people have completely lost touch with any sort of common sense or reality at all.