Officers have recovered two handguns from the garden of an unused house in Liverpool, Merseyside. The house was searched after police received a tip-off from a member of the public.

Jack Bowley and Kyle Myatt have been sentenced to six years and 52 months in a young offenders' institution respectively and Hannah Green has been given a 12-month community order with 240 hours of unpaid work and been ordered to pay £1,200 costs for involvement in the armed robbery of a takeaway restaurant in Burton, Staffordshire. Bowley and Myatt used a gun to smash a computer before holding it to the face of a female employee and escaped with £500 in cash in a car driven by Green. Police also found cannabis and drug-related items in Bowley's home and car during the investigation.

Alan Owen Henderson has pleaded guilty to making false statements to obtain a shotgun certificate and to possessing 11 rounds of live ammunition without a firearms certificate at his farm in Weardale, County Durham. He neglected to declare his previous convictions in his application for a shotgun licence and the ammunition was discovered in a box on top of a kitchen cupboard during a police search.

Marc Slatter has pleaded guilty to possessing a 1900 Iver Johnson revolver at his home in Barnstaple, Devon. He alleged to have found the gun and to have held on to it out of curiosity. The judge stated that he did not intend to implement a custodial sentence.

Sheldon Green, 23, has been jailed for five years for nine different offences including an armed robbery of a store in Woodford Green, north London.  He stole a motorbike he had seen advertised on the internet and drove to the store. Still wearing his helmet, he pointed an imitation pistol at an employee and threw a bag on the counter before escaping with £200 in cash. Three days later he committed a further three armed robberies of small grocery stores in east and south London. He claimed to have committed the offences in order to square a drug debt he was pressured to repay.

Sean Kenney has pleaded guilty to stealing alcohol worth £286, causing damage and disrupting public order after resisting arrest when police tried to use a taser gun to restrain him at a supermarket in Queensferry, Clywd. A few days after being released from prison and while on bail for shoplifting champagne and assaulting a security guard, he took spirits from a supermarket but was caught by staff. He struggled against the shop employees, ripped up a chair, damaged the walls of the holding room with a piece of metal and pulled the CCTV camera off the wall. When police attempted to discharge a taser he climbed up into the space above the ceiling, prompting two hours of negotiations with a specialist officer and the closing of an adjacent store. After the stand-off he  committed a further shoplifting offence and was found in possession of wire cutters when arrested.

A 55-year-old man was found shot dead after gunfire was heard on a street in Fulham, west London. Police discovered four guns and ammunition at the property that were all licensed to the victim, and said that the circumstances of his death were not considered to be suspicious.

A 29-year-old man shot himself in the foot when he slipped on wet grass while carrying a shotgun on a hunting trip in Muddiford, Devon. He was airlifted to hospital and will require physiotherapy to learn to walk again after his leg was damaged by shrapnel and he had to have his big toe amputated.

Two masked men fired a shotgun during the robbery of a bookmaker's in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. The pair threatened employees and shot at them, before escaping without taking anything. The victims were left very shaken but unhurt.

A driver was threatened by a passenger with a gun after he told the man his ticket was not valid for travel on his bus in Darlaston, West Midlands. The passenger pointed the apparent handgun at the victim and pulled the trigger, making an audible clicking noise. He then escaped on foot, leaving the driver and passengers shaken but uninjured.