Terrorism risk of amateur armourer

A mentally ill cocaine addict was at ‘risk of being recruited by extremist groups’ when he began converting imitation pistols into working firearms, a court heard. Mohammed Ullah, 32, bought two blank-firing pistols and blank ammunition for £310 on 7 May 2022 from a website called GS Workwear. One was manufactured by ‘Retay’ and the other by ‘Ekol’, and both were of Turkish origin. On 9 May Ullah travelled to Bury in Greater Manchester with two other men, Fahim Zafar…