Woman jailed for hiding gun linked to fatal shooting

A woman has been jailed for five years for hiding a gun at her Birmingham home, suspected of being used in a fatal shooting weeks earlier.

35-year-old Deanne Gordon claimed she had found the Smith and Wesson Colt revolver after police discovered it along with 12 bullets during a raid at her Ladywood address on December 11.

It is understood that the gun has been linked to the murder of 33-year-old Derek Junior Myers, who was killed during a shooting in Soho Hill in Hockley on 30 October.

Birmingham Crown Court heard Gordon was not home when police raided her home, but her mother was at the premises.

Shortly afterwards Gordon arrived at the property and when police quizzed her about the gun, she said: “I found it - I brought it into the address, it’s got nothing to do with my mother.”

She later claimed she had seen cars pull up at bins outside the address and out of “curiosity” had gone out and found a bag, which she realised contained a gun and had brought it inside.

Ms Rai said the revolver was in full working order and added: “The recovered gun had been linked to the murder and attempted murder of two males in Soho Hill on 30 October last year.”

Jewellery shop worker Gordon was jailed after admitting possessing a prohibited firearm and ammunition without a firearms certificate.

Gurdeep Garcha, defending, said Gordon had been jailed in 2002 for a serious drugs offence but had since turned her life around.