Police searching a South-East London address for property stolen during last summer’s riots found a handgun and bullets in a bedroom cupboard – resulting in a five-year prison sentence for the man who stashed them there.
Gabios Calfos, 38, (pictured) of Mina Road, Walworth pleaded guilty to unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition at his girlfriend’s home in Waters Road, Catford on August 12, last year.
Detective Constable Hayley Boucher of the Operation Trilogy Unit at Lewisham said: “We entered the address because there was strong intelligence to suggest stolen property was being stored there but what we eventually found was a potentially lethal firearm which could have been used to endanger a life.
“An illegal firearm is a very serious offence as the result at court shows. I would urge anyone who has information about firearms and illegal weapons to make contact with us or to call Crime stoppers anonymously.”
Officers executed a search warrant at a vacant Waters Road address after local intelligence suggested that there was stolen property from the Lewisham riot stored there.
In an upstairs bedroom they found a brown handled revolver and a yellow glove containing four rounds of ammunition.
Calfos’s girlfriend returned home and was arrested for handling stolen goods; possession of criminal property and unlawful possession of a firearm.
The defendant attended Lewisham Police Station the same day and told police: “I found it in the loft at Waters Road. I took it down and put it in a cupboard in the bedroom. She doesn't know anything about it.”
During his interview Calfos insisted he did not reside at Waters Road, and had no knowledge of how the gun came to be in the premises, claiming he simply found it in the loft and put it in the bedroom.
No charges were brought against the woman arrested.
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