A man who had a “fascination” with guns modified them to look like a “hard-man”, a court has heard.
Sean Aspinall appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Thursday after being convicted after trial of one count of conspiring to convert an imitation firearm into a weapon, and conspiracy to supply or transfer prohibited weapons. Stella Hayden, prosecuting, detailed that Aspinall went online and bought blank firearms which he then passed onto Steven Shannon, who modified the weapons.
She said that Aspinall purchased the weapons off the internet, and assisted with their conversion, of which there were at least six. On May 19 last year, Merseyside Police raided a home in Huyton and found the firearms, and Aspinall has been remanded into custody since that date.
