Court hears flat was ‘guns supermarket’

A couple turned their one-bedroomed flat into a guns supermarket stocked with a sub-machine gun and hundreds of live rounds, a British court heard yesterday.

And police there claim an Irishman was acting as “middle-man” in a weapons deal, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard.

Armed police recovered a deadly Mac II machine pistol and 50 varieties of ammunition from the Hackney, London, home of Patricia Cremin, aged 43, and Mark Downs, aged 38, the court was told.