‘Gun was just a toy for my mate’s kid,’ claims drug dealer

A suspected drug dealer caught with an imitation Sig Sauer pistol claimed it was just a toy he picked up for a friend’s son, a court heard. Jeoffrey Thompson, 24, was searched by police after being spotted approaching strangers on the ground floor of the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre in south London. Officers told him they were searching him under the Misuse of Drugs Act when they stopped him at around 18.15pm on 14 September last year. They found…