THE man once labelled “Falmouth’s worst criminal” by police has been jailed again after officers discovered a cache of weapons hidden in his sister’s garden shed.

Daniel Shane Kendrick, 32, was sent to prison for 18 months at a hearing at Truro Crown Court on Monday.

He last hit the headlines in April last year after being awarded £55,000 in compensation after being wrongly sent to Broadmoor as part of a previous sentence.

Jailing him on Monday, Judge John Neligan revealed Kendrick had already “blown” the whole of the compensation package.

Kendrick had pleaded guilty in April to offences which included the possession of five air weapons, ammunition, drugs, knives and the breach of a conditional discharge.

Prosecutor Iain White said that the weapons had been found in a garden shed in his sister's home in Falmouth. They had been stolen during a burglary in Truro in December and were fully operational. Kendrick claimed that he had paid hundreds of pounds for them. When questioned by the police he handed back watches which had been stolen but said nothing about the weapons.

Kendrick was found with four Stanley knives in his rucksack and coat, and small quantities of cannabis and a class C drug when arrested outside the L2 nightclub in Truro.

Mr White added that Kendrick had 24 previous convictions and sentences included nine-and-a-half years imprisonment in 2001 when weapons were involved. Last year he was jailed for six months for handling stolen goods and he was now in breach of an 18-month conditional discharge.

Ramsay Quaife, defending, pointed out that Kendrick had spent five months in custody on remand, adding "He has asked for help and he needs it.

Probation officer Mary Lewis pointed out that steps had been taken to help Kendrick but he had not complied with the rules or the advice he had been given.

Judge John Neligan commented: "You have done more than was reasonably expected of you" and told Kendrick because he had served a previous sentence of imprisonment he was banned for life from possessing weapons and ammunition.

"In many ways you are an extremely sad case because you received a substantial sum of money in compensation and you have blown the lot."