Aristocrat Pleads Guilty

Stately home owner Sir Benjamin Slade has been fined £2000 for firearms offences. He appeared at Taunton magistrates court today.

Stately home owner Sir Benjamin Slade has pleaded guilty to two firearms offences at Taunton Magistrates Court. The owner of Maunsel House in Somerset admitted to owning a Fabarm shotgun without holding a certificate and leaving an AYA shotgun unsecured. Sentencing has yet to happen.

The owner of a stately home in Somerset is due before magistrates charged with firearms offences. Sir Benjamin Slade of Maunsel House near Bridgwater denies two charges of possessing a weapon without a certificate. He also denies failing to comply with the conditions of a shotgun certificate