Lewis Dedman returned home after an argument with his wife to find a police car in his driveway. Kent police had come for his guns. 12 months on and Lewis, a professional pest controller, is still with his wife – in fact they are expecting a second child – but he is still without his rifles and shotguns, worth £15-20K. He has lost permissions and a big part of his income – and now he’s in a Catch-22 where he can’t get the psychiatric report he needs because the medical profession turn him away when they hear it’s about guns.
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