Armed police officers supported a raid at a property in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, where a Taser, heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis was seized. A man and a woman were subsequently arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A and Class B drugs and possession of an S5 firearm.

Hayden Hodges, aged 20, has been handed a five-year term in a young offenders' institution after admitting possession of a handgun and ammunition. Hodges was arrested after police officers found a converted blank-firing handgun and ammunition in his bedroom drawer at his home in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. The court heard that Hodges was asked by a drug dealer to hide the gun and ammunition in December 2023 in return for his drug debt of £3,000 being reduced to £1,000. He was also told that he would be “shot in the leg” if he didn’t co-operate.

Police arrested four people at a property in Kettering, Northamptonshire on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, possession of a firearm and possession of an offensive weapon. Two of those detained were teenage boys, one of whom was further arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply a Class A drug.

A teenage boy from Perth, Scotland has been charged with having a prohibited weapon, culpable and reckless discharge of a firearm and three counts of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, likely to cause fear or alarm. Appearing alongside him in court was a man accused of importing a prohibited item and having an unauthorised weapon designed or adapted to discharge noxious liquid or gas.

Police officers arrested a man in Baldock, Hertfordshire on suspicion of possession of firearms and for sending messages with intent to cause stress or anxiety. Click on media link to read full report.

Allain Miller, aged 19, has been jailed for five years after admitting possession of a firearm and ammunition. Following information from the community, police officers searched Miller’s home in Birmingham, West Midlands in November 2023 and recovered a loaded handgun from a drawer in his bedroom. A red bandana, which police believe to be a hallmark of a local gang, was also found.

Police officers searching a property in Birmingham, West Midlands recovered drugs, a large amount of cash and a live handgun. Two men were arrested at the scene.

Adrian Ling, aged 63, has been jailed for eight years after being found guilty of conspiring to commit criminal damage and four counts of possession of a firearm with criminal intent. After being dismissed from his job at a taxi firm in Ellough, East Suffolk in 2012, Ling repeatedly fired an air rifle at taxis from the open window of a car, shattering windows and damaging bodywork. On four occasions, the taxis were carrying passengers and during one attack, a driver was injured. Ling also poured corrosive fluid over vehicles, smashed wing mirrors and punctured or slashed tyres. Ling and a co-defendant (yet to be sentenced) were arrested in September 2016, after which their homes were searched. Police officers recovered two air rifles, metal wheel bearings, tapered rollers believed to be the projectiles used as ammunition to fire from air rifles, mobile phones and a cloned registration plate. They also found two shortwave radio scanners, believed to have been used to monitor communications between dispatchers and taxi drivers.

The death of a man found with a “catastrophic head injury” in an outbuilding at his parents' home in Gloucestershire is not being treated as suspicious. A gun was found near the man’s body and police confirmed that no one else was involved.

Two people in a bar suffered shotgun injuries after a moped rider dropped a shotgun while fleeing from police officers in Clapham, South London. The firearm discharged on hitting the ground. A third person was injured by the moped. All three victims were treated in hospital for injuries not thought to be life threatening. Two suspects fled the scene and remain at large.