This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Release former SAS hero, 65 year old Albert Patterson from prison.
Albert Patterson has been jailed for 15 months because he keept a trophy pistol he captured during the Falklands War. Albert cannot be considered to be a danger to the community and perhaps a fine and a suspended sentence would have been more appropriate.
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The 65-year-old said he kept the handgun to remind him of the 22 friends killed in the 1982 conflict.
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