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| A British man accused of trying to shoot US presidential candidate Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to some of the charges he faced. | |
| Michael Sandford, 20, from Dorking, Surrey, was due to stand trial over an incident at a Trump rally in Las Vegas on 18 June. | |
| He pleaded guilty to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm and disrupting an official function. | |
| His plea means he could be deported and his sentence reduced. | |
| Sandford may have faced up to 20 years in a US prison if he had been convicted at trial of both charges. | |
| He was due to stand trial later this month over an incident at a rally in which he allegedly tried to grab a policeman's gun to attack the Republican presidential candidate. | |
| The Briton's mother, Lynne Sandford, flew to the US last week with his UK-based lawyer to see her son in custody for the first time and persuade him to sign the plea agreement. | |
| She said Sandford had needed care for a number of mental health conditions including autism, severe obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression. | |
| Ms Sandford has argued her son should serve any sentence in a psychiatric hospital in the UK. |