Former mayor: Officers with search dogs swooped on the home of Cllr Jonathan Farmer (pictured) A Conservative former mayor and veteran army reservist has been dramatically arrested in an early-morning police raid and charged with owning a live 70-year-old Nazi wartime gun. Officers with search dogs swooped on the home of Councillor Jonathan Farmer, 56, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and seized a German Walther PPK pistol dating back to the Second World War. Police said they were acting on a tip-off and had a warrant to search his home for firearms. He will appear in court next Monday and could face a five-year jail sentence if found guilty.
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Officers with search dogs swooped on home of Cllr Jonathan Farmer, 56
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Apparently 'seized German Walther PPK pistol from Second World War'
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Police said they were acting on tip-off and had warrant to search his home
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He is set to appear in court and could face five-year jail term if found guilty
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Gun was gift from British veteran of Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy, 1944
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Farmer helps run the local army cadet force and is married to town clerk
German Walther PPK: A soldier took the deadly weapon, a much-treasured war souvenir, from a captured @placeholder officer, and Farmer has allegedly owned it for 30 years (file picture)