An
audacious gunman, caught by police with a loaded weapon stuffed down
his trousers a few months after he was busted for drug dealing, is
starting a fifteen-and-a-half year prison sentence.
Brian
Odour, 27, of Richford Street, Hammersmith was arrested by police
from the Organised Crime Command in a targeted operation.
He
was convicted by an Isleworth Crown Court jury of possessing a
firearm, with intent to endanger life and possessing ammunition, with
intent to endanger life.
Odour
had already pleaded guilty to possessing a blade, which officers
found during a search of his car.
He
was
stopped by officers on September 26, last year on suspicion of having
a firearm.
He
was searched and, in the waistband of his trousers, the gun was
found.
The
firearm was examined and was found to be in full working order with
four rounds of ammunition.
A
few months earlier, on May 11 police found cocaine, ecstasy and
Ketamine during a search of his car and Odour pleaded guilty to
possessing those drugs, with intent to supply.
Detective
Constable Richard Vanderpuije, of the Organised Crime Command, said:
"As
a result of a proactive investigation a dangerous firearm has been
taken off the streets of London.
“The
lengthy sentence handed to Odour reflects the potentially fatal
consequences of having a firearm in a public place."
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