sawed-off shotgun

A source said: "These idiots were messing around with one of their sawn-off shotguns.

Police then searched a grey Seat Leon parked on Barnhurst's driveway, stolen in a burglary in Warwickshire six days earlier, and found a sawn-off shotgun, crack cocaine, heroin, and a large quantity of cash.

The force said: "A sawn-off shotgun has been recovered after officers swooped on an address in Handsworth.

For the sawn-off shotgun offence, Blair was sentenced to five years, and for each of the two shotgun licence offences to 12 months - the sentences will all run concurrently with one another, making five years.

Blair, 25, of Oakdene Road, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to possession of a prohibited weapon - the sawn-off shotgun - as well as possession of two shotguns without a licence, two counts of possession of crack with intent to supply and one count of possession of heroin with intent to supply.

"When the sawn-off shotgun was examined by forensic scientists for DNA, they examined a number of different areas.

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| Gun dealer Ben Wellings and accomplice Pauline Ali and (below) the sawn-off shotgun recovered from Ali's BMW

A MAN who blasted a drug dealer with a sawn-off shotgun was found guilty of murder yesterday.

THE ex-boyfriend of teenage knife killer Jordan Jobson, who murdered new mum Samantha Madgin, is on the run after police found a sawn-off shotgun at his home.

Wayne McDonald had been dealt with in May, 1990, for possessing a sawn-off shotgun and having ammunition, the jury at Preston Crown Court heard.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man who was caught on the streets of Huddersfield with a bag containing a sawn-off shotgun, three unused cartridges and two balaclavas has been sentenced to five years in jail.

This is the face of the robber who held a sawn-off shotgun to a pregnant shop assistant's face before making off with up to pounds 3,000.