Schoolboy with two guns ‘not danger’

A BOY of 14 caught with two guns and live ammunition walked free yesterday — as a judge said Parliament had "tied his hands".

The schoolboy escaped being locked up because in the eyes of the law he cannot be classed a "dangerous" offender.

Sentencing guidelines meant the judge had to let him off with a youth rehabilitation order — despite him admitting having two pistols and 13 bullets hidden under floorboards at his home.

Judge Roger Chapple told the boy: "The courts generally take a very serious view of this sort of thing and mark it with long prison sentences.     Full Read