Transsexual former soldier jailed after she hid huge stash of explosives, guns and ammunition at her home 'to prepare for World War 3'- yards away from police station

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2742479/Transsexual-former-soldier-jailed-hid-huge-stash-explosives-guns-ammunition-home-prepare-World-War-3-yards-away-police-station.html


A transsexual former soldier has been jailed after hiding a huge stash of explosives, guns and ammunition at her home - yards away from a police station.

Joanne Morris, formerly known as Paul, kept detonators and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in flowerbeds at her cottage in preparation for 'World War Three'.

The 48-year-old from Bloxwich, West Midlands, was jailed for seven years at Wolverhampton Crown Court.

She will serve her sentence in a male prison despite identifying herself as a woman and being referred to as Joanne throughout court proceedings.

The court heard how police swooped on her property after noticing a dozen packages from America bearing accessories for firearms.

Officers discovered the largest firearms haul of its kind in 10 years at the cottage which Morris shares with her wife of 26 years.

Almost 2,000 rounds of ammunitions including 476 bullet point cartridges designed to expand on impact were seized alongside 239 bullet heads, 15 detonators, a 12-bore shotgun and seven sticks of explosives.

Some of the equipment was taken when Morris served with the Royal Engineers between 1983 and 1992.

Air guns, night vision goggles, a silencer, smoke grenade, harpoon and two samurai swords were also discovered. 

One hundred officers took three days to search the property with army bomb disposal experts also called to carry out controlled explosions at the scene.

Morris pleaded guilty to four charges of unlawfully possessing ammunition and one count of possessing a shotgun.

She was jailed for seven years by a judge who described the hoard of explosives as 'lethal' after already spending time in a male prison where she has been 'verbally abused' and 'threatened with rape', the court heard.

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And the fact that she's transgender needed to be in this report why?

Quote from: Dee Walker on September 08, 2014, 02:09:32 PM
And the fact that she's transgender needed to be in this report why?

Because it's Britain's nastiest most transphobic newspaper.A sordid "newspaper" with the death of Lucy Meadows on their hands after they blew her life up

Okay so it is a highly excessive amount of lethal weapons that I've hardly heard of, and I know how Britain is about even having simple firearms. I'm not surprised about the jail time... but why in the world are they putting her in a male prison? That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Quote from: Dee Walker on September 08, 2014, 02:09:32 PM
And the fact that she's transgender needed to be in this report why?

I was thinking the same thing.