Police recover machine gun in Aston car search

Jan 3 2009 by Mark Cowan, Birmingham Mail

POLICE recovered a machine gun when they searched a car in Birmingham after being called to break up a street brawl.

Officers had been alerted to the fight in Parliament Street, Aston, after the alarm was raised in the early hours of December 30.

Three people were arrested in connection with the incident.

But as police searched a vehicle, stunned bobbies found the unmarked weapon, which looked similar to a Mac-10 machine pistol.

The weapon has now been sent away for forensic tests.

A 19-year-old city man appeared before magistrates in Birmingham on New Year’s Day charged with possession of an automatic firearm and ammunition.

Two other men arrested following the brawl were released on police bail pending further investigations.