Married couple ‘first in UK’ to be sentenced for possessing chemical weapon

Martyn and Michaela Tasker discovered abandoned canisters in Lincolnshire woodland in October 2017.

A married couple who dumped World War Two Mustard Gas canisters in a lake have been sentenced for possessing a chemical weapon after what is thought to be the first such prosecution in the UK.

Military enthusiast Martyn Tasker was jailed for five years after the discovery of 16 abandoned canisters at a former RAF based used in the Second World War – as well as a separate charged of possessing two Bren machine guns.