Man pleads guilty to firearms offences

Date published: 28/10/2008

A 27-year-old man has today, Monday 27 October 2008, admitted a number of firearms offences after officers from GMP's Xcalibre Organised Crime Unit recovered five guns when they stopped a car in Wigan.

Fation Peqici (born 24/03/81), of Wash Lane, Bury, pleaded guilty to possessing firearms and ammunition with intent to endanger life, possession of a prohibited weapon without a firearm certificate and possession of ammunition without a firearm certificate at Liverpool Crown Court.

He is due to be sentenced at a later date.

Christopher Payne (15/05/1967), of Wash Lane, Bury, is currently standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court charged with the same offences.

Both men were arrested after officers carried out a search of a Renault Laguna at the junction of Market Street and Atherton Road shortly after 7.30pm on Thursday 5 June 2008. Subsequent searches were also carried out at an address in Bury and Cheetham Hill.