Fearsome Walking Dead-style weapons found in Coventry car

Bats and wooden poles were wrapped in barbed wire



A haul of 'seriously unpleasant' and medieval-looking weapons were recovered from the back of a builder's car after he was stopped by cops in Coventry.

Resembling an arsenal from TV zombie-series the Walking Dead, officers found baseball bats and wooden poles wrapped in barbed wire.

The poles had also been modified with lumps of concrete with nails embedded and were described by a posecutor as 'particularly awesome weapons'.

All three men in the car were arrested over the Walking Dead-style weapons, and at Warwick Crown Court driver Shaban Brika pleaded guilty to possessing offensive weapons.

Brika, 45, of no fixed address, was jailed for 20 months.

The other two men, his son Mohammed Brika, 21, and Albert Cajka, 28, also both of no fixed address, had pleaded not guilty.

But on the day of their trial the case against them was dropped after prosecutor Ian Windridge said neither of the police officers who had been due to give evidence had attended.



Sentencing Brika, Judge de Bertodano told him: “The police came out on a Sunday evening to a residential street and found you driving a VW which had work items in it, but which also had five very seriously unpleasant weapons.

“There were three baseball bats wrapped in barbed wire and two poles wrapped in barbed wire with nails protruding from the ends. They are very nasty weapons indeed.

"They are made to inflict really serious injuries.

“You knew full-well they were in the car. I accept you may not have put them there, but you were driving them about.

“These are highly dangerous weapons. There is a risk of serious disorder when these sorts of weapons in that quantity are in a car with three adult males in a residential street.

"Of course they were not taken out, but this is about risk.”

Something not quite right here.

Justice not being served because of a lack of police child care? I've known judges go completely apesh*t for far less.