Young man in possession of firearms gets five years

A young man who was made hold a weapons cache, including a machine gun and silencer, because he had run up a drug debt with a criminal gang has been jailed for five years.

Young man in possession of firearms gets five years

A young man who was made hold a weapons cache, including a machine gun and silencer, because he had run up a drug debt with a criminal gang has been jailed for five years.

This was the second time Karl Bowes (24) had been caught with a weapon which he claimed he was made hold. In 2007 he received community service for possession of a handgun which he said was given to him by people he was “in fear of”.

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