Gunman jailed after firearm recovered from street

#JAILED | A gunman has been jailed for more than six years after his DNA was found on a gun recovered from a street in #Birmingham.
Mohammed Ajaz, aged 56, was arrested after he was forensically linked to the gun, which was found during a police search after a disturbance on Lyttelton Road, Stechford, on 1 November last year.
Another man, 42-year-old Martin Macdonald, was seen brandishing the gun in the street, before being arrested by our firearms officers.
He was later jailed for five years and one month after being convicted of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
But our investigation continued after Ajaz’s DNA was found on the 9mm weapon, which was a blank-firing pistol which had been converted to fire live ammunition.
It had two rounds of ammunition in it, and Ajaz had eight viable rounds of ammunition on him in a manbag when he was arrested.
Ajaz went on to admit possession of a firearm and ammunition, and last Tuesday was jailed for six years and one month.
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