A 23-year-old man appeared at Bristol Crown Court on Monday 10 October and has been jailed after pleading guilty to four firearm offences. Omari Sharpe, of Southmead, was arrested in August after being forensically linked to a handgun.
Avon and Somerset Police issued a statement regarding Sharpe's sentencing in court today (October 14). Police said they recovered the handgun a month before Sharpe's arrest from a vehicle on Maggs Lane in the Whitchurch area of Shropshire.
The handgun that was recovered and later discovered to belong to Sharpe, is a nine millimetre Parabellum self-loading pistol. Police said the hand gun was found along with four rounds of ammunition. An examination of the weapon suggested it had not recently been used.
