Rejected petition Free jailed Ex SAS veteran Albert Patterson

Ex-SAS hero who took an Argentine soldier's handgun during the Falklands War and kept it at home to remind him of his fallen comrades has been jailed.
Albert Patterson, 65, kept the 9mm self-loading pistol in his cellar as a tribute to the 22 colleagues who were killed during the 1982 conflict.

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Date submitted 16 April 2016
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