Photos emerge from Bradford of sub-machine guns seized

The T&A has been given exclusive access to the photos of the FGC-9, 9mm Luger carbine that was passed round the jury at Sheffield Crown Court.

Jurors were instructed not to pull the trigger on the firearm seized from a BMW stopped at Rooley Lane by armed police.

Two Bradford men are among the three defendants in a trial for offences related to the manufacture and transfer sub-machine guns created using a 3D printer.

The jury has heard that this firearm was recovered from Majeeb Rehman’s car shortly after 7pm on May 17 last year.

Leading counsel for the prosecution, Stephen Wood KC, yesterday requested: “Please don’t pull the trigger or move any of the parts.”

A police officer handed the firearm to the jury. It had been thoroughly cleaned and was completely safe to inspect, they were assured.

Mr Wood pointed to the embossed motif on his gun and said it could be more clearly seen than on a photo. The court heard that the plastic contains an image of an arm holding the curved sword and what appears to be blood running from the sword.

Jurors were given the opportunity to examine one of eight Parabellum calibre cartridges that had been recovered with the FGC-9, 9mm LUGGER carbine.

They also handled the ‘main carbine’ found in Christopher Gill’s attic at his address on Dick Lane, Bradford, and a lower receiver, a stock and three springs.

The Honourable Justice Hilliard, who was the trial judge, then adjourned hearing until Monday when defense cases will start.

One of the defendants, Sibusiso Moyo, was wasn’t well enough to take part in the trial until then.

Moyo, 41, Elloughton Grove Grove, Hull. Gill, 35, pleaded not guilty to conspiring with others to manufacture prohibited firearms.

They and Rehman (46), of Central Avenue in Little Horton, Bradford, denied conspiracy to transfer a prohibited weapon, an FGC-9 hybrid machine gun, to persons not known on May 17, 2022. They also denied possessing ammunition, eight 9mm Luger cartridges and a firearms certificate.

Moyo, Gill also denied two charges of possessing a prohibited firearm for sale or transfer.

Moyo pleads guilty to possessing an identity document with an improper intent.

Wood told the jury that the sub-machine gun that was seized by police on Rooley Lane was manufactured using a 3D printer. A firearms officer who examined the gun had never seen one like it before.

Wood claims that Moyo, Gill were involved with the manufacture of firearms. Rehman was caught transporting a loaded bullet-loaded cartridge-carrying firearm red-handed.

Andre Horne, a scientist with expertise in the analysis of firearms and ballistics, concluded that most of the FGC-9, 9mm Luger carbine recovered from Rehman’s car had been produced on a 3D printer and some of its metal parts appeared to be homemade.

It was successfully tested using a 9mm cartridge.

The main part of Dick Lane’s weapon was a 9mm Luger FGC-9 rifle that had been 3D printed and partially assembled. The lower receiver of a FGC-9 carbine was the other section. It was also 3D printed, it is believed.

The jury was informed that Moyo was a DNA match to swabs taken from seized objects.

Mr Wood alleged that he was ‘intimately involved in the manufacturing process.’ The trial continues.