A semi-automatic handgun was found stashed in a Nike bag among gravestones at West Derby Cemetery yesterday.
Hundreds of graves were cordoned off and forensic investigators conducted a painstaking examination of the site after the weapon was reported. Now Merseyside Police has released pictures of the weapon, as well as of a number of bullets and a clip also found in the bag.
The force says it is in the process of forensically examine the weapon and work will be ongoing to check if it linked to the August murders of Sam Rimmer, Ashley Dale or Olivia-Pratt-Korbel. Police were called to the cemetery, on Lower House Lane, at around 1.15pm after a member of the public came across the black bag and realised it contained a gun.
