Drug dealer who stockpiled submachine guns at north London flat jailed for 16 years Anthony France
A drug dealer who stockpiled two submachine guns and 300 rounds of ammunition at his flat has been jailed for 16 years.
Terrence O’Connor, 25, hid the Uzi 9mm and Czech-made .32 Skorpion in a holdall behind a false wall panel in Edgware, north London, as pictured below.
Police also recovered a silencer, £143,000 in cash and one kilo of cocaine valued at £36,000.
An automatic Uzi is capable of firing up to 600 rounds a minute.
In April last year, O’Connor met a suspect who was under surveillance as part of a money laundering investigation, a court heard yesterday.
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Terence O Connor A BOLTON man has been jailed after police discovered a hidden cache of sub machine guns and ammunition as well as cocaine and more than £140,000 at a property in London. Terence O Connor first came to police attention after he was seen handing over what was thought to be a large bag of cash to a suspect. But after officers arrested him and searched a flat in Edgware the 25-year-old was linked to, they discovered a false wall panel, behind which was a holdall containing a fully-functioning 9mm Uzi sub machine gun and a .32 auto Skorpion sub-machine gun plus ammunition and a silencer.