Surveillance footage has been released showing a criminal throwing a sawn-off shotgun over a fence as police moved in to arrest him.
Kirkby man Paul While was under heavy police surveillance days after he was released from prison last year. A specialist police team believed he was about to collect a gun.
Now footage has emerged which captured the moment While ran from a house on East Prescot Road and threw a bag containing the shotgun over a fence into a garden. While was jailed as a direct result of the police operation that led to his arrest on September 2 last year.