I restored my sons Iphone 3gs and now it wont activate keeps saying there is no sim in

Hi can anyone help - i passed on my old iphone 3gs to my son,who had it unlocked in a shop so couldnt update software i asked Tesco to unlock properly they sent two emails saying they had conteacted apple it was not unlocked so plkug it in to itunes and it would say unlocked - it didnt unlock so I asked in the apple store who said to try to restore it which i did but now thw phone wont activate -it sats no sim and even though i went and got a new tesco sim it is stillsaying no sim and wont activate
all help appreciated

Was this officially unlocked legally by the phone carrier that the phone was locked to?
If not it sounds like the phone was hacked to unlocked and when you updated the phone it locked backed up again.

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