AN unusual pistol which was seized by police from a Huddersfield house is to be retained in an archive to help with future investigations, a court heard.
The gun was one of several weapons found when police raided the home where drug dealer Dino Otis Liburd was living.
The .410 calibre side-by-side hammer-shot pistol with shortened barrels was discovered along with a .455 Colt pistol, five rounds of ammunition, a working stun gun and a stash of drugs when officers executed a search at a property in Corby Street, Birkby, in October 2010.
Prosecutor Simon Reevell told Bradford Crown Court that the police wanted to retain the hammer-shot weapon for their archive and also revealed that the Colt had previously been fired during an incident at a pub car park in Liverpool back in 2007.
Yesterday Liburd, 28, was jailed for a total of five-and-a-half years after he accepted he had been storing the weapons, ammunition and drugs in return for a “modest” payment.
The court heard that the drugs, 165 grammes of M-cat, 328 grammes of GHB and 84.2 grammes of flephedrone, had an estimated street value ranging between £5,000 and £11,000.
