Disaster 'Weapon obsessed' ex-PCSO told to expect jail - >her; >she; >miss

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A former police community support officer (PCSO) with an "obsession" for weapons has been found guilty of trying to make a gun using a 3D printer.

Zoe Watts, 38, of St Helen's Avenue, Lincoln, was found with parts for a semi automatic weapon, a machete, bladed article, crossbow and bow during a raid on her home on 11 December.

During her trial at Lincoln Crown Court, Watts claimed she was making a "fidget" toy gun as a Christmas present.

She is believed to be the first person in the UK to be convicted of attempting to manufacture a prohibited gun using a printer. She will be sentence on 8 August.

Lincoln Crown Court heard the 3D printer was found in a cupboard during a search of her home along with many of the parts needed to make a gun.

When firearms experts tried to put the weapon together it did not work but the prosecution said it would be a "lethal" prohibited weapon if manufactured correctly.

Two days before the raid on her home, Ms Watts had also searched the internet for "Has anybody been killed by a 3D printed gun?" and read about a man who had been shot dead in New York.

Watts was previously jailed in 2021 after she was found with banned weapons and explosive substances and had also made an improvised explosive device.

Judge Simon Hirst remanded Watts back into custody.

"Given the previous convictions that Miss Watts has I would like a report on the issue of dangerousness," Judge Hirst explained.

"You know a sentence of custody awaits. I will decide on 8 August how long that will be."
 
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"Expect jail" is one step below "enjoy prison". Getting there.
 
For the colonials; PCSOs are the authoritarian Karens in pretty much their final form. They are the people who are too retarded for the actual police (which is not a high bar) but want to play at police running around like Eric Cartman demanding that you "respect my authoritay". They are held in such high regard that popular nicknames include Hobby Bobbies and Plastic Pigs.

Not too happy with criminalisation on the basis of attempting to possess weapons but wanting to be a PCSO is clearly conduct worthy of incarceration.
 
 
Milkshake Sniffer said:
For the colonials; PCSOs are the authoritarian Karens in pretty much their final form. They are the people who are too retarded for the actual police (which is not a high bar) but want to play at police running around like Eric Cartman demanding that you "respect my authoritay". They are held in such high regard that popular nicknames include Hobby Bobbies and Plastic Pigs.
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The US has the same thing by various names. Here they're more like police groupies than authoritarians on account of no-gun equals no-authority. They're usually very young and underweight, bordering on malnourished. Basically paid boyscouts with a radio. I don't think anyone has ever paid them enough notice to give them a nickname.
 
From the looks of it? Probably tried to 3d print a new vagina too.

oldTireWater said:
The US has the same thing by various names. Here they're more like police groupies than authoritarians on account of no-gun equals no-authority. They're usually very young and underweight, bordering on malnourished. Basically paid boyscouts with a radio. I don't think anyone has ever paid them enough notice to give them a nickname.
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"Police Explorers" I think is the official name, though not quite as big a deal in America because private citizen firearm ownership means a lot of people who want to be cops but can't hack it just skip quasi-police options and go full "PMC operator" mode. After all, they'd chafe under any command structure that'd tell them they're being spergs.
 
oldTireWater said:
The US has the same thing by various names. Here they're more like police groupies than authoritarians on account of no-gun equals no-authority. They're usually very young and underweight, bordering on malnourished. Basically paid boyscouts with a radio. I don't think anyone has ever paid them enough notice to give them a nickname.
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Reminds me of Jeremy Dewitt.
 
Milkshake Sniffer said:
Not too happy with criminalisation on the basis of attempting to possess weapons but wanting to be a PCSO is clearly conduct worthy of incarceration.
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Further confirmed by that despite having been already incarcerated once for this shit Zoe's at it again less than half a decade later.
Watts was previously jailed in 2021 after she was found with banned weapons and explosive substances and had also made an improvised explosive device.
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If "muh dangerous right wing" or Muslim extremists were jailed for possessing banned weapons and IEDs then half a decade later had to be jailed again for the exact same shit there would be a lot of screaming. Because it's not just a police adjacent person but one of their precious diversity hires we'll hear less than a peep.
 
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