SAS sniper Danny Nightingale found guilty of possessing gun and ammunition The 38-year-old has been on trial at the court martial centre in Bulford, Wiltshire Haul was recovered by civilian police in September 2011 in his bedroom Pistol found in his wardrobe and the ammunition was under his bed in a box Sgt Nightingale said he had no regrets fighting his conviction even though he could now could go to military detention SAS sniper Danny Nightingale, 38, has been convicted by a court martial board of possessing a Glock 9mm pistol and 338 rounds of ammunition, which were found in his bedroom in September 2011. The 38-year-old has been on trial at the court martial centre in Bulford, Wiltshire, for the past week. The haul was recovered by civilian police in September 2011 in the rented house the father-of-two shared with another SAS soldier, known only as Soldier N. Police were acting on a tip-off from Soldier N's estranged wife who said there might be a gun stored at the three-bedroom house. SAS sniper Sergeant Danny Nightingale has been found guilty by a court martial The pistol was found in Sgt Nightingale's wardrobe and the ammunition was under his bed in a plastic box. Sgt Nightingale, of Crewe, has pleaded not guilty to possession of a prohibited firearm between November 26, 2007 and September 16, 2011. He also denies possession on or about September 16, 2011 of ammunition, namely 122 9mm live rounds, 40 7.62mm live rounds, 50 9mm frangible rounds, 50 .338 armour piercing live rounds, two .308 live rounds and 74 5.56mm live rounds. Sgt Nightingale, who was serving in Afghanistan at the time, said he had no knowledge of them being in his bedroom and said someone else had put them there. I have physical or tangible memory. I have no recollection of receiving the gun,' he told the court martial. He said he was a 'diligent' soldier who would not have 'randomly' stored ammunition at home. The Crown said Sgt Nightingale had put the public at risk by having the lethal arsenal stored in an insecure house. Sgt Nightingale had said he had no knowledge of the Glock and ammunition being in his bedroom and said they were put there by someone else Prosecutor Timothy Cray told the five-person board: 'No soldier, no matter what his experience is or what unit he is attached to, is above the law. 'On the specific facts alleged - that is, the defendant's attitude to the retention of arms and ammunition - is that he made a series of mistakes that put the public at risk and that is why he now comes before this court martial. No matter how he tries to deny it, the gun and ammunition were there in his bedroom because he put them there and he kept them there. Mr Cray accused the special forces soldier of changing his story after originally telling police the pistol was a 'trophy' brought back from Iraq in 2007 and that he had accumulated the ammunition from training sessions in the UK. But Sgt Nightingale insisted his confusion followed a serious illness he suffered while taking part in an endurance event in Brazil in 2009, which had significantly affected his memory. He said that his confession to police in 2011 was false because he was 'confabulating' - meaning he was filling in gaps in his memory based on what other people had told him and may have latched onto his housemate's own account of possessing a pistol and ammunition. Medical experts have disagreed on whether this was the case. William Clegg QC, defending, suggested Soldier N had brought the Glock pistol to the UK from Iraq. Sgt Nightingale now says the confession he made to the police was false because of memory problems caused by a brain injury he suffered during a charity endurance marathon in October 2009, which left him in a coma Soldier N was sentenced to two years" military detention last year after admitting possessing a Glock 9mm pistol, which he brought back from Iraq in 2003. He also pleaded guilty to possessing ammunition that was recovered by police at the house he shared with Sgt Nightingale. Mr Clegg said Soldier N had good reason to disassociate himself from the second pistol as having two would have looked like he was collecting them. 'One can be a souvenir; two begins to suggest a collection,' he suggested. Mr Clegg said the prosecution case was built upon a 'remarkable coincidence' in that two identical pistols manufactured in Austria and issued to the Iraqi security forces by the US in 2003 had ended up in the same house eight years later. 'Their case is that they both arrived independently of each other, quite separately, in separate years, by separate soldiers in the different circumstances and just by chance those two guns ended up together in the bedrooms of the same house,' Mr Clegg said. Each given, say the prosecution, by an Iraqi national to a separate, independent British soldier years apart. If you have got two guns making separate and independent journeys halfway across the globe, three years apart from the same source, you might think it is the most remarkable coincidence. Former SAS sniper, Sgt Danny Nightingale has been supported by his wife Sally and father Humphrey During the trial several members of the SAS gave evidence anonymously - with the press and public able to hear their evidence from an annexe. One serviceman said the storing of weapons in accommodation was a 'gross breach' of Army regulations, while Soldier N said bringing back trophies from overseas operations was 'part of the course'. 'You go on operations, you want to bring back a trophy, as our grandfathers did in the war,' Soldier N said. He also described the procedures for checking military equipment coming back into the UK from abroad before a crackdown in 2004 as 'reasonably relaxed'. Soldier N also said he was 'lazy' in habitually keeping ammunition at home instead of checking it back into the stores after a day's training. Sgt Nightingale had pleaded not guilty to possession of a prohibited firearm between November 26, 2007 and September 16, 2011. SAS sniper Sergeant Danny Nightingale (third right) and wife Sally leave his court martial in Bulford, Wiltshire with his supporters He also denied possession on or about September 16, 2011 of ammunition, namely 122 9mm live rounds, 40 7.62mm live rounds, 50 9mm frangible rounds, 50 .338 armour piercing live rounds, two .308 live rounds and 74 5.56mm live rounds. Nightingale had originally pleaded guilty to the two charges in November last year and was sentenced to 18 months" military detention. The father-of-two, from Crewe, Cheshire, appealed against that sentence and it was reduced to 12 months" imprisonment, suspended for a year. The Court of Appeal later quashed Sgt Nightingale's original convictions and a fresh trial was ordered. Sentencing was adjourned today pending a Court of Appeal judgment on the sentencing powers of the court. His family, including wife Sally and father Humphrey, have been in court throughout the trial to support him. Sgt Nightingale, pictured with his wife Sally, said he thought his case was strong enough to clear his name Colonel Charles Barnett, from the Services Prosecuting Authority, said outside court: 'Sgt Nightingale has now had the trial which he requested, which is his right to seek. He has now been convicted by the board. His fine record as a soldier is a matter that will no doubt be considered carefully when the board considers his sentence. Sentence is of course a matter for the court martial and not the Services Prosecuting Authority. Speaking outside court, Sgt Nightingale thanked his family and his supporters. I think at the moment we need it more than ever. There is a bit of David and Goliath going on,' he said. 'We are taking advice on an appeal etc but at the moment the sentence isn't yet decided, so that's where it stands.' Sgt Nightingale said he thought his case was strong enough to clear his name. I believed so, the family believed so, the team believed so. Yes, it came as a great shock,' he said. Mrs Nightingale said that the family learned something new every day about her husband's brain injury. 'It has been a confabulated story and Danny still confabulates,' she said. No matter what was said in that court, I live with him and he still confabulates and he still struggles with his brain injury on a day to day basis. Sgt Nightingale said he had no regrets fighting his conviction even though he had received a suspended sentence and now could go to military detention. I never regret fighting it, no. No, not for one second,' he said. Describing his brain injury, Sgt Nightingale said: 'It's a horrible place to be thinking what was that reality - was it fact or fiction? 'When I came back from Brazil one of the specialists (in court) claimed there wasn't much of an effect. I came back from Brazil without the realisation that I was married to my wife, without the realisation that I had my first child. 'Since then I have developed things in my head that weren't fact. Still some times now I have difficulty recognising family members. So to say there is no effect is quite shocking really. Sgt Nightingale said that his time in the SAS was the proudest of his 18-year military career, including 12 years in the Regiment. 'It is still the best time in my Army career and something I am very proud off,' he said. 'I am to be medically discharged, so this won't taint my military memory. It just happens that the last two years are not really part of my military - they are something that has happened since then. He added: 'I think my military career died before my medical discharge.'