A woman has been fined for possessing a prohibited stun-gun at her home in Wick.
The weapon was found after a police raid at Margaret Mackay’s home on Seaforth Avenue on February 3 last year.
She was fined £300 at Wick Sheriff Court.
Her solicitor, Fiona McDonald said that the accused had no idea how the gun, which is capable of discharging an electrical force, had come into the house. She had come across it and put it in a drawer.
Miss McDonald said: “My client had forgotten all about until the police arrived and found it.”
Sheriff Andrew Berry said he was going to take the explanation “at face value” but added it still left the accused responsible and made the point that she could have taken the stun gun to the police after she made the initial discovery.
