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A 60-year-old man has avoided jail after the drug dealers selling him heroin stashed a sawn-off shotgun in his house.

Police found the shotgun and a Glock semi-automatic pistol at the home of Richard Stubbs, now of Tottington Street, Manchester, in November 2020 after obtaining a search warrant.

Manchester Crown Court heard today (November 21) that Stubbs, who was in the grip of a heroin addiction at the time, had known about the guns, put there by his dealers, but was 'too terrified' to report them to the police.

Prosecuting barrister Eric Lamb told the court that police attended Stubbs' then home on Mallory Walk in Wythenshawe on November 13 2020 to execute a search warrant.

"During the search, police recovered a bag inside his wardrobe," Mr Lamb told the court. "Insid

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