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A source said: "These idiots were messing around with one of their sawn-off shotguns.

Officers found a "large quantity" of class A drugs, a loaded 9mm pistol, a sawn-off shotgun and two bags full of ammunition that were hidden in a shed in the back garden.

The force said: "A sawn-off shotgun has been recovered after officers swooped on an address in Handsworth.

"The most alarming aspect of this case is that you have a sawn-off shotgun which has never been recovered.

For the sawn-off shotgun offence, Blair was sentenced to five years, and for each of the two shotgun licence offences to 12 months - the sentences will all run concurrently with one another, making five years.

Blair, 25, of Oakdene Road, Liverpool, pleaded guilty to possession of a prohibited weapon - the sawn-off shotgun - as well as possession of two shotguns without a licence, two counts of possession of crack with intent to supply and one count of possession of heroin with intent to supply.

The 19-year-old, of Highcroft Crescent in Almondbury, pleaded not guilty to one count of possession of a smoothbore l ff gun, namely a sawn-off semi-automatic shotgun of 40 inches in length.

"Under the front passenger seat was a crumpled paper bag, inside which was a sawn-off shotgun loaded with two cartridges, and a small plastic bag, inside which were nine more shotgun cartridges.

A sawn-off shot-gun was recovered from the foot-well of a damaged car found at the scene.

He tried to flee thinking that he had been set up but his 45-year-old acquaintance got out of his car and fired a sawn-off hunting rifle twice toward him at close range.

Then, he was confronted with the terrifying sight of a man holding a sawn-off shotgun.

A SMALL-TIME crook caught with a sawn-off shotgun hidden in his home has been jailed.

A DRUG dealer from Coventry has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison after police found an axe in his car and a sawn-off shotgun with nine live rounds in his house during a search.