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Widow faces jail for possession of late husband's illegal pistol after it was stolen during burglary
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 16 Feb 2012 | Richard Alleyne

Posted on 02/19/2012 11:02:15 PM PST by smokingfrog

Kathleen Woodward, 64, reported the loss of the vintage pistol after her home was ransacked by a thief who escaped with the gun along with other stolen property.

But while he ended up being jailed for just six months, Mrs Woodward could be sentenced to five years for possession of the firearm.

Mrs Woodward, whose late husband was a gun collector, returned to the house to find it ransacked and when she reported the theft immediately told police that among the property stolen was a handgun which sparked a major operation to find the weapon.

The thief who stole the gun which was inside a cash box, Guy Whitelaw, was later jailed for five years after admitting illegal possession of the prohibited weapon, although his sentence was quashed on appeal.

Parliament has laid down that a minimum of five years imprisonment be imposed for such an offence, unless exceptional circumstances can be shown. Whitelaw (29) later had his jail term cut to six months resulting in his immediate release.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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1 posted on 02/19/2012 11:02:23 PM PST by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
Parliament has laid down that a minimum of five years imprisonment be imposed for such an offence, unless exceptional circumstances can be shown.

Apparently an exceptional circumstance is if you steal the gun. She should claim she stole it from her husband and get six months like the other thief.

2 posted on 02/19/2012 11:08:33 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: smokingfrog
God sakes.

California in 20 years. Bet me.

3 posted on 02/19/2012 11:12:18 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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4 posted on 02/19/2012 11:12:39 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: smokingfrog

The Sassenachs have lost their minds.


5 posted on 02/19/2012 11:13:44 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I just took inventory. I'd get sentenced to hundreds of years in the UK if they caught me with my inventory. I'm like Carlos the Jackal or Slobodan Milosevic over there.

Good thing I don't live there.

I did just return from London not too long ago. Seems that they like cutting each other's guts out with crappy little camping knives. Some kid got chased through a holiday shoppers crowd and was knifed to death in front of thousands of people in this sort of ritzy shopping area on Oxford St. I'd just been in that same store just a few weeks before.

England, I think your draconian laws really aren't having the intended effect.

6 posted on 02/19/2012 11:40:30 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: TigersEye

There really is nothing left Great about Britain.


7 posted on 02/19/2012 11:45:39 PM PST by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Give The Anointed One a second term and we are well on our way to the sissyfication of this nation.


8 posted on 02/20/2012 12:04:46 AM PST by saintgermaine
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To: The KG9 Kid

True self respect is a quality only of free men, not possible for any other.


10 posted on 02/20/2012 2:25:22 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: MtBaldy
The empire is gone, now the sun is setting on Britain
11 posted on 02/20/2012 2:54:50 AM PST by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: TYVets

If you own a gun in the UK, you need a firearms licence. I have a firearms licence and several firearms. She had a firearm with no licence. It’s not rocket science is it?

She’ll get let off with a caution.

As for all the predictable nonsense about the end of the UK, please can it - it’s boring, it’s wrong, we’ve got 3% muslims and 92% white British, we don’t have an American-hating muslim president and if any freepers fancy moving from their officially secular state to our officially christian country, you’ll be more than welcome! :)


12 posted on 02/20/2012 3:21:50 AM PST by Caulkhead
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To: The KG9 Kid
California in 20 years. Bet me.

If you need money, just ask. Don't try to con people.

13 posted on 02/20/2012 5:03:55 AM PST by magslinger (Who cares if they are"electable" if they are going to govern like Democrats? -noprogs)
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To: Caulkhead

Not all that convincing, old chap.


14 posted on 02/20/2012 5:08:18 AM PST by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: Caulkhead
If you own a gun in the UK, you need a firearms licence.

I have a firearms license.

15 posted on 02/20/2012 5:08:47 AM PST by magslinger (Who cares if they are"electable" if they are going to govern like Democrats? -noprogs)
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To: smokingfrog
The thief who stole the gun which was inside a cash box, Guy Whitelaw,...

The cash box was named 'Guy Whitelaw'?

16 posted on 02/20/2012 5:39:18 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

You don’t name your cash boxes in the States?

Freaks!


17 posted on 02/20/2012 5:48:33 AM PST by agere_contra ("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
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To: Caulkhead

What would this woman have had to do to get a license to own her dead husband’s revolver legally?


18 posted on 02/20/2012 6:05:08 AM PST by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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To: Turbopilot

Apply to the police.


19 posted on 02/20/2012 6:45:10 AM PST by the scotsman (I)
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To: the scotsman

What about those “evil” hollow point bullets? I bet they wouldn’t let her keep those.

A gun without ammunition is just a paperweight.


20 posted on 02/20/2012 7:17:59 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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