Swindon man sentenced over firearm offences following police warrant
Ryan Molloy has been sentenced for possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of ammunition
Last updated 8th Aug 2024
A man from Wiltshire has been handed a jail sentence for the possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of ammunition.
20-year-old Ryan Molloy from Stamford Close in Toothill was sentenced at Swindon Crown Court yesterday (Wednesday) for the offences.
He was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of ammunition for a firearm without a certificate.
It follows a warrant being carried out on a property on Edington Close back on September 18 last year.
During the warrant, they report three men were seen running from the property and a bag was later reported to have been dumped in a neighbour's garden.
A firearm was found inside that bag, and following forensic investigations Molloy's fingerprints were found on the gun.
Molloy was sentenced to five years in a young offenders institution and to pay £228 surcharge. The viable firearm and cartridges will now be destroyed.
Detective Constable Anna McCormack said: "A bag containing a firearm was left in a residential garden where anyone could have found it. Such illegal firearms have no place in Swindon and Wiltshire. They often end up in the hands of organised criminals, who use them to inflict serious violence and instil fear.
"I am pleased to have removed one from our streets before it was used to fatally or seriously injure someone."
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