Judge calls for law requiring ID for anyone buying a mobile phone

Judge Johnson made his remarks as he handed down a three-year suspended sentence to a Latvian national who was found with a fully loaded semi-automatic pistol and 18 rounds of ammunition

The judge said he had no doubt that laws preventing the sale of mobile phones would reduce crime levels and make life more difficult for criminals. File photo: iStock

A Circuit Court judge has called for urgent changes to the law to prevent the sale of mobile phones without the need to produce some form of ID.

Judge Keenan Johnson said the ongoing ability of people to walk into shops and buy phones without any record kept of who was purchasing them was facilitating crime.