Man guilty of converting Mac-10 guns for criminal underworld

He had bought 90 blank-firing replica Mac-10 guns on the pretext of using them for a James Bond film but instead supplied them to the criminal underworld on an unprecedented scale.

The replica submachine guns converted in a shabby garden shed in Berkshire by Wilkinson contributed to a surge in gun crime across the country - including the Bradford robbery in which PC Sharon Beshenivsky was killed and the murder of schoolboy Michael Dosunmu in south London last year.

Police are offering a £10,000 award for information leading to the recovery of any the 40 weapons still unaccounted for.

Should replicas be banned?

We were joined by Claudia Webbe, the Chair of the Trident Independent Advisory Group - the body that overseas the Metropolitan police's anti-gun initiative to debate the issue:

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