Sniper Nightingale's Housemate 'Took Guns Home'

By David Bowden, Defence Correspondent

The estranged wife of a soldier - who shared a house with Danny Nightingale - has told a court martial her husband regularly brought weapons and ammunition into the family home.

Former SAS sniper Nightingale is on trial for illegal possession of a pistol and more than 300 rounds of ammunition found in his bedroom. He denies they were his.

Nightingale's lawyers maintain they belonged to his housemate, who is also an SAS soldier and is known only as N.

N's wife, who cannot be identified, says N twice fired a small black gun out of a window.

She said she once spotted a Glock pistol case in the back of N's Land Rover, which was similar to one found in Nightingale's room containing a pistol.

She said she was "too terrified" to open the case after her husband told her she wasn't to look inside.

The court heard their children would not stay alone with N, so his wife would have to accompany them to Nightingale's home.

Their son would sleep in Nightingale's room but she would sleep downstairs because N kept a gun in his bedside table, the court was told.

Ammunition found at Nightingale's house

N has already pleaded guilty to four charges of possessing an illegal weapon and ammunition and has served a two year sentence in military custody.

Meanwhile, forensic neuropsychologist Dr Susan Young told the court that Nightingale displayed memory discrepancies only seen in 1% or 2% of the population.

Dr Susan Young, who works at Broadmoor special hospital, examined Nightingale after he suffered a near fatal brain injury after he collapsed during an ultramarathon in the Amazon Jungle.

She said his confabulation - or memory disturbance - caused him to fabricate things to compensate for his memory loss.

Dr Young said: "Any account provided by Sgt Nightingale has very likely included confabulated material and that may interfere with the accuracy of the account he's provided."

She added that his symptoms were consistent with brain trauma.

The court also heard he had developed his own coping strategies including breaking down stories into bullet points, substituting words for those he couldn't remember and making lists of things he had to do.

However, consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Philip Joseph has cast doubt on the extent of the lasting brain damage.

The doctor from St Mary's Hospital in London described Nightingale as "a robust individual psychologically" and not prone to confabulation.

He added the injury "was a brief insult to the brain which went very rapidly" and did not cause any long-lasting effects.

Dr Joseph said the evidence presented to the court that Nightingale cannot remember things and makes things up to fill in the gaps is inconsistent and that both cannot be correct.

The trial is continues.

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