A man has been jailed for five years for bringing stun guns into the UK after he posted videos boasting about them on Facebook.
Henry Morton, 37, was stopped by Border Force officers at Glasgow Airport on arrival from Bulgaria in September 2014.
The officers found two stun guns, disguised as iPhones, in his luggage but he claimed he did not know the phones were weapons and had bought them to listen to music.
Detectives found messages on his real phone offering to sell the weapons in Scotland.
Officers also found two videos of him using the stun guns in his hotel room in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria.
On one of the videos, which he later posted on Facebook, he told viewers “f*** with me, you get tasered”.
Morton, of St James Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday after pleading guilty to firearms charges.
John McGowan, head of the National Crime Agency’s border investigation team at the Scottish Crime Campus in Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire, said: “The videos we recovered were key to securing a guilty plea.
“Once we found them Morton had to admit that he knew exactly what these weapons were capable of.
“They also show that he would have had no qualms about using them himself.
“These weapons have the capacity to cause serious harm, which is why we are determined to do all we can to keep them off the streets.”
