When Libyan rebels celebrated the death of Muammar Gaddafi, the colonel's gold-plated pistol was held up as a symbol of their victory.
Four years on, he has gone back to track down the man who had the gun - Mohammed Elbibi, picture here:
But Mohammed told our correspondent he had nothing to do with the lynching of Gaddafi.
He simply found the colonel's gun lying on the ground near the place where he was caught.
In the confusion of the moment, and seeing him with the gun, the other rebels thought it was Mohammed who had killed him, he says. He became the accidental hero of the revolution.
And he still has the gun.
Which meant our correspondent got another chance to look at it up close:
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