10 months for importing Glock Section 5 parts...

[TattooedGun]

This is a joke. What happened to the mandatory minimum 5 year sentence?

Add to the firearms violation the drugs charges and 10 months is not a deterrent, it's an advert for low risk for high gains criminality. What an abysmal let down by the prosecution service :(

http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/n ... us-seizure

[Rockhopper]

It sounds almost like he wasn't convicted of the firearms offences, just the drugs.

[Racalman]

It's a nice radio but it's not antique

[Rockhopper]

It seems the parts never actually made it into the UK.

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/loca ... on-online/

[Rockhopper]

Its a Hallicrafters S-85 from the 1950's.

[Dark Skies]

I wonder if he'll even serve the full ten months. Perhaps he'll appeal on the grounds that imprisonment will interfere with his holiday arrangements.

Nothing surprises me any more.

[1066]

It seems the parts never actually made it into the UK.

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/loca ... on-online/

Looks like he was working on a prototype handgun of some sort. These part were for a 9mm Glock revolver. :)

[Blackstuff]

It reads like the parts never got to him so he was never in possession, so he can't be charged with the offence that carries the mandatory 5 years? CPS sentencing guidelines seem to indicate that he could've been charged with an importation offence which comes under a Customs and Excise and possibly explains the lenient sentence!?

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/d_to_g/firearms/#a14

[Chuck]

This is a joke. What happened to the mandatory minimum 5 year sentence?

Hoperfully gone for good. Mandatory sentencing is not just or fair and has no place in society. IMO of course...

[BamBam]

Reads like he was just some nerd who made a error of judgement, a defence anybody could adopt.