Gun Incidents in Great Britain


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Derby Telegraph

29-01-2013

Aaron Waite has been jailed for five years for possessing a loaded sawn-off shotgun at a house in Derby. The illegal weapon was discovered during a drug raid hidden in a cardboard box at the property and Waite was arrested. The gun has been identified as a weapon which was stolen in a 2008 burglary of a property in Doncaster.



Manchester Evening News

29-01-2013

Mason Jones, 18, has been given a 12-week suspended sentence and a restraining order and been ordered to pay £100 compensation and to do 200 hours' unpaid work after pleading guilty to harassing his former girlfriend in Sale, Greater Manchester. Jones threatened the victim via phone and text message after their relationship ended and told her he had a nine millimetre Beretta pistol which he was going to use to kill her, her family and a man he believed her to be in a new relationship with, and got his friend to corroborate his claims.



Waltham Forest Guardian

29-01-2013

A 17-year-old has been jailed for three years for possessing a sawn-off shotgun and two cartridges on a street in Leyton, east London. He and two others were arrested by police who had received a tip-off that the weapon was going to exchange hands and stopped the taxi he got into. The other two teenagers were released on bail.



Ludlow & Tenbury Wells Advertiser

29-01-2013

William Baldwin and Gregory Smith have both pleaded guilty to illegally abstracting electricity to grow 112 cannabis plants at a residential property in Ludlow, Shropshire.  Smith has also pleaded guilty to possessing a stun gun.



Oxford Mail

29-01-2013

Vaseem Manzoor has had his jail sentence for having an illegal starting pistol modified to fire, blank ammunition and counterfeit currency reduced from five years to a year by the Court of Appeal. There were considered to be exceptional circumstances to avoid the minimum five-year term because he had handed the gun over to police during a search of his property in Hinksey Hill, Oxfordshire and it was accepted that the he had picked up the weapon, which had not been fired, in order to dispose of it.



Dumbarton Reporter

29-01-2013

John Scott has been jailed for five months for carrying an air rifle in the grounds of Vale of Leven Hospital in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire. Staff called police after he and another man were seen dressed in camouflage and carrying the rifle on hospital grounds.



Hartlepool Mail

28-01-2013

An air rifle was allegedly brandished during an incident outside a residential property in Seaton Carew, County Durham. Police arrested a man at the scene on suspicion of possessing an air weapon with intent to cause fear of violence.



Dunmow Broadcast

28-01-2013

An 18-year-old man has been arrested during an investigation into reports of a man carrying a gun in his waistband on the street in Dunmow, Essex. Police also recovered what is believed to be a BB gun.





Surrey Comet

28-01-2013

Three men have allegedly used an imitation firearm to rob a phone shop in Norbiton, Surrey. A police car crashed into a fence during the incident and two men have been arrested.



Northampton Herald and Times

28-01-2013

A woman was robbed by a man with a gun on a street in Northampton. The assailant held the victim at gunpoint and demanded cash, later using her stolen debit card to withdraw money. A 50-year-old man has been arrested and charged with carrying out the robbery.



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About this information

This information is provided by the Infer Trust. It is compiled from media reports of incidents in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland has different gun legislation. We know the information is incomplete, though we believe nearly all of the most serious crimes are included.