A CRIMINAL who received a sawn-off rifle, only to return it when the owner threatened to chop off his fingers, will be sentenced next month.
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Orion Jesse Harding, 25, bought the firearm and ammunition from Brodie Ray in early April, and stored it at his Waratah Crescent home.
Harding, who was on parole at the time, later received increasingly erratic messages from Ray demanding he give the weapon back.
“I’m coming to get the gun or your fingers got it, I don’t care who’s in the house either,” Ray texted him.
Harding spoke to his mother about the issue and agreed to give the gun back.
The weapon and ammo were later found stuffed into the frame of a sofa at Ray’s housing commission unit.
Both men had taken photographs of the weapons on their phones, with Ray posing in a selfie.
Ray was jailed for at least 13 months last week.
Harding, who is behind bars at Junee, fronted court in Albury on Monday.
He will be sentenced in District Court sittings starting on November 6.
