Woman charged with gun offences after raid in Lincoln

A woman has been charged with firearms offences after armed police raided a house in Lincoln.

Officers executed a warrant at an address at St Helen’s Avenue on Wednesday.

Zoe Watts, 38, has been charged with possessing a firearm while banned from doing so, possession of a firearm without a certificate and manufacturing a firearm.

She appeared at Lincoln Magistrates' Court on Friday and was remanded in custody until 13 January.

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