Jahshaun Hodge, aged 24, has been jailed for seven years and two months after admitting possessing prohibited firearms and possessing heroin and cocaine with intent to supply. In November 2023, police officers raided a property in Wolverhampton, West Midlands and recovered two viable pistols from a bedroom, as well as drugs and associated paraphernalia, cash and mobile phones from the downstairs rooms. Hodge was arrested at the scene.

David Farrington, aged 68, has been jailed for three years, four months and ordered to pay costs after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. In December 2023, Farrington pointed a shotgun at a neighbour after visiting his house to complain about loud music. During a brief scuffle, Farrington fired the weapon into a ceiling. After police officers arrested him and seized the shotgun, they searched Farrington’s house and found a second shotgun and several cartridges. Farrington was ordered to forfeit his ammunition and firearms, and is banned from possessing a firearms licence.

Chadrick Peart, aged 23, has been jailed for 22 months for his involvement in a drive-by shooting. In December 2023, shots were fired from a car towards a bar in Birmingham, West Midlands. CCTV revealed that, following the attack, Peart pointed what looked like a handgun at the car as it drove away. The court heard that Peart’s firearm, which has not been recovered, was a replica weapon.

After a person reported seeing a gun in a man’s home in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, police officers searched the property and discovered a “large haul of weapons”. The items, including firearms and knives, were voluntarily handed to police by “a very vulnerable man”. A police spokesperson later confirmed that safeguarding measures had been put in place to support the man concerned.

Armed police officers recovered fake weapons after responding to a report of a person with a firearm at a cinema in Eastbourne, East Sussex. A man has since been charged with possession of an imitation firearm in a public place and obstructing an officer from performing their duty.

A cat has been left with “significant injuries” after being shot with an air weapon in St Margaret's Hope, Orkney Islands. Police have appealed for information, saying, “Not only are cats legally protected from cruelty, but this offence breaches the terms of being a licenced air weapon holder.”

Following a police raid at a property in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, a man was charged with possession of an offensive weapon in a private place, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life/enable another to do so, possession with intent to supply a controlled Class A drug, possession with intent to supply a controlled Class B drug, possession of ammunition with intent to endanger life and acquiring/using/possessing criminal property.

In an early-morning raid at a property in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, police officers found a handgun, twelve rounds of ammunition and a significant amount of suspected heroin hidden inside a tub of washing powder. A man has since been arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition without a firearms certificate and possession with intent to supply Class A drugs.

Three men, Barry Harvey, 35, Darren Owen, 23, and Thomas Guthrie, 28, have been jailed for a total of 59 years for offences including two fatal shootings: Harvey was found guilty of the murder of a man shot nine times with a handgun outside his home in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire in September 2018; Owen was found guilty of the murder of a man shot in the head in Blantyre in February 2019; and all three men were found guilty of the attempted murder of a man shot in the face in Cathkin in December 2018. The court heard that the victims were targeted because they had unpaid drug debts. Guthrie, already serving a life sentence for acting as Harvey’s getaway driver in Airdrie attack, received a further eight years for the Cathkin attack and a separate assault. On sentencing, the judge said, “The fact the sale of drugs causes these appalling acts of violence and planned assassinations due to this drug debt is deeply disturbing.”

A cat required surgery to repair a torn bladder after being shot with an air rifle in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The incident has been reported to police.