2022-03-30
2.5-year jail sentence for disposing of 'cold-blooded assassination' weapon
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: He said he would suspend the final 18 months to incentivise Merriman towards further rehabilitation and the sentence would begin when Merriman's current five-year jail term, which was imposed in 2018, ends. Merriman was sentenced in 2018 to five years in prison for possession of the firearm in suspicious circumstances.