A mother and her teenage son are beginning prison sentences after police looking for guns raided their South Tottenham home in the early hours of the morning – seizing a lethal sawn-off shotgun.
Shop worker Violet Allen, 55 (pic.mid) and jobless 18 year-old Tyrone Russell-Allen, (pic.top) both of Hillside Road were arrested by Haringey CID’s Crime Squad on March 23.
Wood Green Crown Court heard officers with a firearms search warrant found both defendants at home and Allen showed police the sawn-off shotgun (pic.bottom) kept in a holdall in her bedroom.
Police also discovered ten .44 and .45 calibre bullets, a disassembled handgun, 700gms of cocaine, 2gms of heroin and 10gms of cannabis, which Russell-Allen confessed was his.
He was sentenced to five-and-a-half years imprisonment for possessing the guns, ammunition and drugs.
His mother received two years for possessing the sawn-off shotgun.
Detective Superintendent Paul Hoare said: “We will continue to carry out intelligence-led search warrants to ensure that we take firearms off the streets of Haringey and bring to justice those responsible for using, storing, carrying and distributing them.”
Investigating officer Detective Constable Barry O'Rourke of Haringey's Crime Squad said: “The weapons seized during this search warrant may well have been used in the commission of any number of violent crimes had it not been for our intervention.
Part of Haringey CID, the Crime Squad was set up in March 2009 to disrupt gangs and gun crime in the borough.
The Crime Squad also proactively targets those involved in burglary, robbery and the supply and misuse of illegal drugs.
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