Gran, 82, stunned to find 12-inch Rambo machete in sofa she bought on Facebook

A grandmother was horrified after finding a 12-inch Rambo machete in a sofa she bought on Facebook. Shirley McNally, 82, said the fearsome blade weighed a tonne and could chop somebody's legs right off.

A grandmother was horrified after finding a 12-inch Rambo machete in a sofa she bought on Facebook.

Shirley McNally, 82, said the fearsome blade weighed a tonne and could “chop somebody's legs right off”.

And she didn’t even make the discovery until a year after the purchase.

She bought the furniture for £180 after seeing it advertised on the social media site in March last year.

The grandmother-of-two decided to sell it earlier this month, so gave it a quick hoover and spray with Febreze before it was collected.

As she cleaned she felt something hard - and found the vicious knife stashed under one of the cushions.

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She quickly pulled out the blade before the new owner arrived.

Unsure of what to do with it, she called Essex Police, who told her to bring the weapon into the station.

Shirley, of Harlow, Essex, said: "I decided to give the sofa a quick Febreze and a hoover before the next owner came to collect it.

"I put my hand down the side of the cushions and felt something hard.

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"It felt like a wallet and I thought: ‘Result.’

"I couldn't believe it when I pulled out a huge Rambo machete."

Shirley said she bought the sofa on Facebook Marketplace, which was dropped off by “two slightly unsavoury guys” in a van.

But after some criticism from grandson Keenan McNally, 33, that it was “disgusting”, she put it up for sale on April 10 this year.

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Within two days, she had sold it.

Shirley said: “My grandson said 'Nan, that is absolutely awful,' and told me it's the sort of sofa you find in an old people's home.

"Then I began to hate the darn thing so I put it up for sale.

"Once someone wanted it I thought I better freshen it up a bit and give it a bit of a Febreze spray and take off the cushions to make sure nothing had fallen down the side.

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"I put my hand down the side of the sofa and thought: 'Oh what's that?'"

Shirley was speechless when she uncovered the machete.

She said: "I got more than I bargained for when I went down the side of it - I just thought I might come across some loose change.

"My first reaction was: 'Oh my god!’

"It's got the leather sheath and everything.

"When I pulled it out I was shocked, it weighs a tonne.

"It could chop somebody's legs right off.”

She added: “I don't even want it in the house and to think it's been there for a year and I had no idea.

"Who knows what somebody else might have used it for?

"Now it's just sitting in my dining room. Imagine if I'd given the sofa away with it still there."

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