A TRANENT man who stashed a stun gun in his bedroom has been fined.

Jed Pullar hid the weapon behind a chest of drawers at his home in the town that he shares with his mother.

Pullar had wrapped the illegal item in a pair of shorts before stashing it in his bedroom.

The 21-year-old had pleaded guilty at his trial diet last month and returned to Edinburgh Sheriff Court for sentencing last Monday.

Previously, fiscal depute Anne McNeill told the court that police officers were granted a search warrant for the property on a separate matter and it was then that they came across the stashed weapon in Pullar’s bedroom.

After he was detained, Pullar told officers the weapon was “plastic and did not work”, though that proved to be false.

Defending solicitor Robert More had told the court the weapon was a “dual function stun gun and torch” and a forensic scientist had described the item as “non-lethal”.

Sheriff Donald Corke sentenced the unemployed labourer to pay a £300 fine.

Pullar admitted possessing a stun gun at his home on November 11 last year.