A painter and decorator agreed to courier a shotgun wrapped in a bin bag and a hi-vis jacket in order to clear a £300 debt.
Mark Sands was responsible for handling the transportation of the weapon just over a week before it was fired at the door of a house with an eight-year-old boy inside. The 47-year-old, who was said to have treated the firearm as a "hot potato", today thanked a judge as he was locked up.
Liverpool Crown Court heard this morning, Friday, that he had taken the gun to a "safehouse" on Alexandra Road in Birkenhead, the top floor flat of Teigan Dutton, eight days before the incident in October 2021. Frank Dillon, prosecuting, described how John Bromilow went on to collect the shotgun and was driven to Percy Road in Wallasey by Paul Price, where he fired two blasts at the door.
