A GUN smuggler from Farnham has had his jail term increased from five years to more than seven after the Attorney General attacked his “unduly lenient” sentence.

Thomas Zachary Parish, 19, of Farnborough Road, admitted conspiracy to transfer banned firearms at Inner London Crown Court last August and was sentenced to five years behind bars.

It comes after he and his partner in crime, 24-year-old Sandhurst man Michael Aaron Redford, were ambushed by armed police while driving five revolvers and more than 300 rounds of ammunition between Slough and London Bridge.

Lawyers representing Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC, criticised the pair’s sentences at London’s Appeal Court on November 3, and urged judges to increase their punishment.

Parish and Redford’s lawyer claimed they had been exploited and were “one-off couriers”, offered “a quick and easy opportunity to make money”.

However, Lord Justice Holroyde, sitting with Mr Justice Green and Judge David Aubrey QC, agreed with the Attorney General, ruling: “The sentences passed did not properly reflect the seriousness of this crime.”

Parish’s jail term was increased to seven years and four months, while Redford’s was increased from five-and-a-half years to eight.