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Echo
Date:
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25/10/2020
Summary:

Michael Green, aged 31, has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting possession of guns and ammunition without the relevant licenses and possessing explosives. In July 2018, police officers raided a man’s flat in Liverpool, Merseyside and, inside a locked bedroom, found three antique rifles, a de-activated machine gun, a sawn-off shotgun, air rifles, ammunition, grenade casings, explosive substances and instructions on how to make bombs. The occupant denied any knowledge of the items, saying that Green, his carer, had helped him move into the flat but had banned him from going into the locked room. When officers subsequently searched Green’s home, they discovered more explosive substances. On arrest, Green told police that the items belonged to his client; however, Green’s DNA was found on most of the items, while his client’s was not present at all. Police officers discovered that Green had used his client’s name and bank account details to set up profiles on PayPal and Amazon, buying stripper clips for one of the antique rifles, knuckledusters, batons and, most significantly, a personalised bib for his daughter. The court heard that Green’s client had spent three days in custody before being cleared of any wrongdoing. In court, the prosecutor said of Green: “He had available to him weapons, ammunition and the wherewithal to construct explosives so that should anyone require such items he was in a position to provide them. Whilst the prosecution accepts that Green himself has not used such items in a criminal way, those who would seek to obtain weaponry from him would most certainly have used it for nefarious purposes.”

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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/innocent-man-saved-jail-stretch-19133332
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