A Southwark man has been jailed after being caught with a gun, £100,000 worth of drugs, and stolen cars.
Southwark Police announced on twitter that Mohamed Belal, 26, from the SE16 area, was sent to twelve years in prison after police seized a converted Turkish ‘Zoraki’ pistol, seventeen bullets, more than 700 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin and stolen vehicles.
Blank-firing pistols can be converted into deadly weapons. The national crime agency (NCA) said in 2017 that the Zoraki guns, which are often imported via eastern Europe, are “an emerging trend in the London area.”