Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A man hid a revolver and bullets in a towel following a police search - he claimed he was holding it for his drug dealer.
Kevin Mould, 28, was at home in Openshaw when officers executed a search warrant in April this year. Whilst entering the house they saw him wrap an object ‘believed to be a firearm’ in a towel, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Following the search, officers found a bag hidden behind some towels in his mum’s bedroom - within the bag was an Old Webley Mark 6 Revolver and 12 bullet cartridges.
In his police interview he claimed he was in a debt to his drug dealer and was holding onto the gun on his behalf. Mould, of Openshaw, pleaded
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