A MILITARY expert was jailed for five years today after police investigating a long-running harassment campaign discovered a cache of arms.

Kenneth Ward, 64, of Appletree Hurst Cottage, Chop Gate, North Yorkshire, admitted to police he had exposed himself to a woman two or three times a week over a seven year period in an effort to drive her out of her home.

When police went to his isolated property in July, they discovered grenades, machine guns, bayonets and ammunition.

Ward, an expert on World War Two aircraft who ran a makeshift museum from his property, kept a loaded Luger pistol under the pillow on his bed.

He was jailed for five years at Teesside Crown Court after admitting harassment, 11 counts of exposure, three counts of possessing a prohibited firearm and other firearms offences.

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