Nightingale: Police Interview Played In Court

By David Bowden, Defence Correspondent

Former SAS sniper Danny Nightingale has admitted to police that he had an illegal pistol and ammunition at the house he shared with another Special Forces soldier.

The admission came in a police interview played to the court martial trying Nightingale for illegal possession of the gun and ammunition.

Nightingale denies the charges.

The court in Bulford, Wiltshire, has already heard that the defence will claim the pistol and bullets belonged to Nightingale's house mate and not to him.

In the interview with West Mercia Police in September 2011, Nightingale was asked to explain the presence of the pistol and ammunition in his bedroom.

Nightingale told police that he had received the Glock pistol in Baghdad towards the end of his tour in Iraq in November 2007.

The ammunition allegedly stored under Danny Nightingale's bed

"It was given to me by the guys I was training out there, indigenous forces. They knew I liked the weapon ... A keepsake," he said.

In the video played to the court, he says he brought it back intending to get it decommissioned and handed over to his unit as a trophy - but he never got around to it.

"I understand I should have got it decommissioned there and then ... Hindsight's a wonderful thing."

"I apologise profusely for that," he added, describing himself as "naive".

He said the ammunition was in the house because he had just moved out of the sergeants' mess on the base nearby. He said he should have handed it in but had not because he was busy preparing to be deployed to Afghanistan.

He says the ammunition was left over after training sessions on the SAS firing range, and told the police he left it in boxes intending to deal with it when he came back from his operational tour.

Nightingale told the interviewers there was "no malice, no intent to being used, just my poor admin. I don't deny that, it's just a regret I have".

The interview then covers the layout of the shared house and the details of the more than 300 rounds of ammunition found there.

Nightingale is seen in the video to be looking at a picture of the Glock pistol which he says was kept in the top drawer of his wardrobe.

The Glock gun found at his house

He is asked if he ever fired it and replies: "I have stripped it, I've assembled it, but I haven't fired it."

Nightingale repeats his assertion that he intended to deal with the pistol and ammunition once he returned from his tour telling police: "It's been a busy tempo for the last few years."

The trial continues.

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