A MAN who was spared a minimum five-year jail sentence for illegally possessing a gun he inherited as a memento of his grandfather was ordered to carry out unpaid work.
Richard Sandison, 51, was a boy when he was given the Belgian revolver from the First World War.
He had played with it and kept it as a memento but it was seized by police after they attended at his home on an unrelated matter.
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