Receive newsletters with the latest news, sport and what's on updates from the Liverpool ECHO by signing up hereĪfter receiving the parcel Craig is heard to ask "what it had come in" which Ms Faure Walker explained was thought to be a reference to how it had been concealed. Ms Faure Walker said: "The two people in the car transported it to Liverpool."Įxplaining the men in the car were not the defendants she added: "Clearly arrangements had been made for others to receive the package to pass on to the defendants." Ms Faure Walker explained a "controlled delivery" was sent to an address in Preston in which the "weapons and other items were not transported to the UK".Īn hour after the package was delivered on January 27 this year a "car arrived at the address and the parcel was brought into the car". When it was inspected it was discovered the parcel contained a Glock 17 pistol with a magazine and ammunition.
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Julia Faure Walker, prosecuting, explained the package was intercepted on January 25 this year in the United States. Liverpool Crown Court heard they were part of a wider enterprise who had arranged for the gun to be brought to Liverpool. They desperately tried to ditch the empty parcel but police caught up with them after listening in to their conversations.
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To their despair officers had intercepted the parcel and it was carefully reassembled and sent on - although instead of a gun there was a tracker device. Officers listened in to Paul Craig and Jason Sri-In, also known as Jason Srin, as they sat in a block of flats in Liverpool city centre and unwrapped what they thought was a semi-automatic handgun.
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Two laughing friends waited for a gun to arrive from America only to discover they had been tricked by police.