NUNN:TWO WOMEN CAUGHT WITH ANTIQUE GUN AND AMMO FACE FIVE YEARS JAIL

Two women caught with an antique revolver and ammunition are facing at least five years in jail.

Robyn Bainbridge, 25, and Gemma Nunn, 28, were found in possession of a Smith and Wesson revolver
and a stash of .44 modified cartridges in a leisure centre carpark in west London.

Southwark Crown Court heard Bainbridge had been ‘looking after’ the deadly cache for associate David Joseph.

A jury convicted Bainbridge and Nunn of possessing a prohibited weapon and possessing ammunition without a certificate.

Joseph, 25, had earlier admitted the offences.
 
The judge, Mr Recorder John Ryder, QC, will sentence the trio on September 9 for the offences which carry a five year statutory minimum sentence.

Prosecutor Susannah Stevens had earlier told jurors: ‘This case concerns three, or maybe four, people all of whom had different roles, but all of whom in doing their roles assisted in the possession of a package.
 
‘That package contained an antique revolver along with 15 cartridges of live ammunition that had been adapted to fit the revolver.
 
‘And, that revolver and ammunition if it had got into the hands of somebody who had used it would and could have been used with potentially lethal effect.

‘The prosecution case is that both Gemma Nunn and Robyn Bainbridge had an agreement in relation to the possession of both the revolver and the ammunition and that they played their part.’

Police arrested the pair on February 11 this year as they sat in Nunn’s car outside the Brentford Leisure Centre, in Kew Bridge Road, west London.

Inside the vehicle police discovered the gun and ammunition inside a carrier bag and £3,000 in cash inside a second bag.

At least one of Nunn’s fingerprints was found on the bag containing the money and a photograph of bundles of cash ‘similar’ to those seized by police was retrieved from her phone, jurors heard.

Detectives found text messages on Joseph’s mobile phone suggesting Bainbridge had hidden the revolver and cartridges at her home for him.

Giving evidence during the trial Bainbridge, a former student at the University of Roehampton, claimed Joseph had asked her to look after a carrier bag but she did not know what was inside.

She added: ‘It was just easier to go along with it rather than for me to ask the question and him be ratty with me.’
 
Nunn did not give evidence in court, but in her police interview she said the rendezvous with Joseph had been a chance meeting while she was on her way to the gym.

Bainbridge, of (47A) Kew Bridge Road, Brentford, Middlesex and Nunn, of (291) Wandsworth Bridge Road, Fulham, West London, denied possessing a prohibited weapon and ammunition without a certificate.

Joseph, of (43) Thames Court, Hanway Road, Hanwell, west London, admitted both counts before the trial started.

The women were remanded on bail ahead of sentence.
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