Grandfather, 78, thrown in jail after going to river he was banned from for salmon poaching 43 YEARS ago

By Emma Reynolds

Last updated at 11:45 AM on 15th February 2012

A 78-year-old who was banned from a river in his days as a notorious salmon poacher wanted to take his grandchildren on fishing trips.

But when the elderly Stanley Murray headed down to Aberdeen's River Don he was thrown straight into jail - 43 years after the ban was imposed.

Now the 1960s troublemaker has overturned his three-month prison sentence, but was warned the court will be ‘without sympathy’ if he does it again.

Mr Murray was sentenced to three months in Aberdeen’s tough Craiginches Prison after visiting the off-limits stretch of water in September.

Unable to pay the costs of challenging the 1968 court order, the grandfather had taken a placard down to Grandhome House to wave at the landowner.

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