Paranoid resident kept rusty revolver and live bullets next to his bed at Wakefield home after break-in
He was given a mandatory jail sentence
A viable pistol and live ammunition were found by accident at a home as police searched for a wanted suspect.
Tyler Camfield was jailed for five years at Leeds Crown Court this week after officers found the rusty, smoothbore revolver at the home in Knottingley.
Officers had gone to the property on Birch Tree Walk on July 29, looking for one of Camfield’s brother.
They began to search the house and in one bedroom, that their mother had said belonged to Tyler, they found the wooden-handled gun and four live rounds in a white plastic carrier bag.
Tyler then attempted to claim it was his wanted brother’s bedroom, and asked his mother why she said it was his room.
Having been arrested, the 23-year-old later admitted during interview that it was his weapon and had bought it because of a violent incident in 2022 in which his home was broken into.
He has five previous convictions for eight offences.
Expert analysed the weapon and found it had been modified, and had a barrel that was 22cm in length.
Mitigating, Abigail Langford admitted she was restricted in what she could say because Camfield faced an automatic five-year sentence.
Judge Mushtaq Khokhar acknowledged Camfield’s trauma from the 2022 but added: “It does not provide you with an excuse to have dangerous weapons in your possession.
“There very little Ms Langford can say. The sentence is fixed by law.”