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A 'SOLDIER OF FORTUNE' WHO CLAIMS HE SPENT
DECADES FIGHTING ALL OVER THE WORLD WAS JAILED FOR A TOTAL OF
FIVE YEARS TODAY (MON) FOR POSSESSING GUNS, AMMUNITION AND FALSE
PASSPORTS.
MR MATTHIAS KELLY, DEFENDING, SAID EX-MERCENARY KEITH
JEFFRIES,47, HAD A .25 AUTOMATIC PISTOL IN HIS CATFORD HOME
BECAUSE 'IT WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY A REBEL LEADER' IN THE
PHILLIPINES, WHO WANTED JEFFRIES TO REPAIR IT FOR HIM.
JEFFRIES WAS UNABLE TO FIX THE GUN AND INSTEAD BROUGHT IT
AND NINE ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION BACK TO BRITAIN ALONG WITH FALSE
PASSPORTS, INNER LONDON CROWN COURT HEARD.
'WHEN FIGHTING AGAINST THE THEN MARCOS REGIME, IT WAS USUAL
FOR PERSONS IN THE POSITION OF MR JEFFRIES TO HAVE A NUMBER OF
PASSPORTS AND OTHER IDENTIFICATION SO IF THEY WERE STOPPED ON
THE ROADS OF THAT COUNTRY, AT THAT TIME UNDER MARTIAL LAW, THEY
WOULD THEN BE ABLE TO FURNISH IDENTIFICATION. THEIR PASSPORTS
WOULD THEN BY KEPT BE THE SOLDIERS TO PREVENT THEIR LEAVING THE
COUNTRY', MR KELLY SAID.
JEFFRIES NEVER USED FAKE PASSPORTS EXCEPT TO FOOL ENEMY
SOLDIERS, COUNSEL CONTINUED. HE USED HIS REAL ONE TO TRAVEL ON.
'THEY WERE SUPPLIED TO HIM BY THE ORGANISATION FOR WHICH
HE WORKED. HE HAD NO IDEA HOW IT GOT THEM BUT HE SUSPECTED THEY
MIGHT BE STOLEN', MR KELLY SAID.
THE COURT HEARD THAT JEFFRIES, WHO CLAIMS TO HAVE ALSO
FOUGHT IN THE FAR EAST AND AFRICA, RETURNED TO ENGLAND AFTER HE
SPENT A YEAR IN JAIL IN THE PHILLIPINES WHERE HE FOUGHT IN THE
SEVENTIES AND EARLY EIGHTIES.
'HE WAS DETAINED WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE INCLUDING
MR AQUINO, WHO WAS LATER SHOT, AND WHOSE WIFE CORY IS NOW THE
PRESIDENT OF THE PHILLIPINES', MR KELLY SAID.
THE GUNS AND PASSPORTS CAME TO LIGHT WHEN POLICE OFFICERS
SPOTTED JEFFRIES DRIVING A LEFT-HAND DRIVE PORSCHE WHICH THE
OFFICERS BELIEVED TO BE STOLEN.
WHEN HIS CATFORD HOUSE WAS SEARCHED OFFICERS FOUND THE
PISTOL AND AMMUNITION FOR IT IN A CLOTH BANK BAG, AND THREE
PASSPORTS.
ONE FORGED PASSPORT IN THE NAME OF BRIAN WOODS CONTAINED
�JEFFRIES' PHOTOGRAPH. ANOTHER WAS IN THE NAME OF PETER WALKER,
WITH A DIFFERENT PHOTOGRAPH.
A CHARGE OF HANDLING THE THIRD PASSPORT WAS DROPPED AFTER
JEFFRIES PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO IT.
A LOADED SHORTENED SHOTGUN WAS FOUND IN A BOX UNDERNEATH A
FLOWERPOT, AND ALSO FOUND WERE A BLACK BALACLAVA, GLOVES,
RAINCOAT AND HAT, SAID PROSECUTOR DAVID STANTON.
JEFFRIES CLAIMED HE HAD BOUGHT THE SHOTGUN FROM A FRIEND
'TO PROTECT MY FAMILY. IT'S NOT A GOOD AREA. I'M NOT HAVING
ANYBODY BREAKING INTO THE HOUSE AND MOLESTING MY WIFE AND KIDS'.
HE ADMITTED SHORTENING THE BARREL.
THE BLACK CLOTHING WAS 'FROM MY PAST' AND NOT
FOR USE IN BRITAIN.
JUDGE IAN MCLEAN JAILED JEFFRIES, A SELF-EMPLOYED CAR
CLEANER OF SPORTSBANK STREET, CATFORD, FOR FOUR YEARS
CONCURRENTLY ON EACH CHARGE FOR POSSESSING THE SHORTENED SHOTGUN
ON APRIL 23 LAST YEAR, AND SHORTENING THE BARREL ON OR BEFORE
THAT DATE.
HE WAS JAILED FOR 12 MONTHS CONSECUTIVELY FOR
POSSESSING THE PISTOL AND AMMUNITION AND NINE MONTHS
CONCURRENTLY FOR POSSESSING A FALSE INSTRUMENT, THE WOODS
PASSPORT, ALL ON APRIL 23 1986, AND NINE MONTHS CONCURRENTLY FOR
RECEIVING THE WALKER PASSPORT ON OR BEFORE APRIL 23 1986. HE
PLEADED GUILTY TO THE CHARGES.
'AS FAR AS THE PASSPORTS AND THE STEYR PISTOL AND
AMMUNUNITION ARE CONCERNED THERE IS SOME EXPLANATION WHICH
EXPLAINS YOUR POSSESSION OF THE ARTICLES ALTHOUGH IT CAN'T
CONDONE IT', THE JUDGE SAID.
'AS FAR AS THE SHORTENED SHOTGUN IS CONCERNED THERE IS NO
EXPLANATION WHATSOEVER' HE ADDED.
CHARGES OF THEFT AND HANDLING OF THE PORSCHE WERE
DROPPED.
