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Scotland:Aristocrat hands over guns after TV claim
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Aristocrat hands over guns after TV claim
Marcello Mega
A SCOTTISH aristocrat battling a powerful law firm to restore his family's fortunes has had to hand over his shotgun and firearms licence to police.
Stuart Usher's dispute with Edinburgh-based Brodies was the subject of last week's Cutting Edge documentary on Channel 4. During the programme, Mr Usher said he sometimes felt like taking his gun into Edinburgh and "nailing" a few lawyers.
Mr Usher was visited at his home near Jedburgh yesterday by two officers from the Lothian and Borders force. They told him that a complaint had been made as a result of the comments he had made in front of the cameras and he was asked to hand over his weapon and licence.
He said: "For a moment I thought about telling them to get lost, but I knew there would be a hoo-ha if I did."
Mr Usher was the founder of the Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers pressure group and makes no secret of his vitriolic dislike for the legal profession.
He said yesterday: "What I said is absolutely true. I would like to nail a few of them. As a profession, I think they are inherently dishonest and motivated only by self-interest. But as a law-abiding man, there is no question I would ever act out the fantasy."
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=1037342002
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Marcello Mega
A SCOTTISH aristocrat battling a powerful law firm to restore his family's fortunes has had to hand over his shotgun and firearms licence to police.
Stuart Usher's dispute with Edinburgh-based Brodies was the subject of last week's Cutting Edge documentary on Channel 4. During the programme, Mr Usher said he sometimes felt like taking his gun into Edinburgh and "nailing" a few lawyers.
Mr Usher was visited at his home near Jedburgh yesterday by two officers from the Lothian and Borders force. They told him that a complaint had been made as a result of the comments he had made in front of the cameras and he was asked to hand over his weapon and licence.
He said: "For a moment I thought about telling them to get lost, but I knew there would be a hoo-ha if I did."
Mr Usher was the founder of the Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers pressure group and makes no secret of his vitriolic dislike for the legal profession.
He said yesterday: "What I said is absolutely true. I would like to nail a few of them. As a profession, I think they are inherently dishonest and motivated only by self-interest. But as a law-abiding man, there is no question I would ever act out the fantasy."
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=1037342002
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878