A MAN trying to import a stun gun into the UK has been jailed for two years.

Aaron Clements from Brede Road, Brighton, was sentenced at Hove Crown Court on December 7 for attempting to illegally import an SX800 type stun gun to Brighton from Thailand.

The 27-year-old carpenter denied the accusations.

But the court found him guilty after his finger prints were discovered on the box that the gun was packaged in.

Detective Sergeant Gemma Firth of Sussex Police said: “Clements was travelling in Thailand and decided to post this gun, which is of a type legal in that country, back to Brighton.

“However his plan came unstuck when a UK Border Force check spotted it when it arrived in the UK in January last year.

“We traced and arrested Clements but he denied any knowledge of the gun and pleaded not guilty at court.

“He agreed that he had looked at such weapons in Thailand but denied trying to import one, a denial somewhat contradicted by his fingerprints being found on both the box and the packing in which the gun was contained.”

“We do not know exactly what use Clements intended to put the gun to, but unauthorised possession of a weapon of this type in any circumstances is highly dangerous to the public and the sentence sends a clear message that this type of offending is taken very seriously by the courts.”