Mother and son jailed for hiding shotgun at their Tottenham home (From Haringey Independent)

Mother and son jailed for hiding shotgun at their Tottenham home

1:50pm Thursday 2nd September 2010 in

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A MOTHER from Tottenham will serve two years in jail after allowing her son to keep a shotgun in their home.

Shop assistant Violet Allen, 55, of Hillside Road, admitted to possession of a sawn-off shotgun.

Her 18-year-old son, Tyrone Russell-Allen, admitted the same offence but also confessed to stocking ammunition, cannabis, cocaine and heroin.

The pair were sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court, in Lordship Lane, yesterday.

Russell-Allen will spend up to five years in prison.

The pair were caught by police officers following a tip-off and their house was raided on March 23.

Both defendants were present but the mother confessed to police that there was a sawn-off shotgun, ten unfired bullets and a disassembled handgun.

Police found the defendants, Allen and her son Russell-Allen, present at the address.

Allen directed police to a holdall in her bedroom where they found a sawn-off shotgun, ten unfired bullets and a disassembled handgun.

Officers also found 700g of Cocaine, 2g of Heroin and 10g of Cannabis.

The pair were charged the following day.

Detective Superintendent Paul Hoare said: "We will continue to carry out intelligence-led search warrants to ensure that we take firearms off the streets of Haringey and bring to justice those responsible for using, storing, carrying and distributing them."