The "intelligent" Coventry University gun gangsters jailed for 28 years

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Two of the young men smuggled guns into the UK and the third plotted with them to sell them



Two Coventry University students who were involved in smuggling illegal firearms into the country and an accomplice who plotted with them to sell the guns have all been jailed.

All three had denied conspiring to evade the prohibition on the importation of prohibited weapons, a similar offence in relation to ammunition, and conspiring to sell prohibited weapons.

But ringleader Shajee Buhary, 23, of St Michael’s Road, Stoke, changed his pleas to guilty on the first day of their trial at Warwick Crown Court earlier this year.

At the end of the trial Gabriel Addai-Brmpah, 23, of Caludon Road, Stoke, who had been photographed holding one of the guns ‘gangsta-style,’ was convicted of all three charges.

Matthew Sidhu, 23, also of Caludon Road, was cleared of conspiring to import the guns but was found guilty of the other two charges.

Following the verdicts, Judge Sally Hancox had warned them: “There can only be one type of sentence to be imposed, and that is a custodial sentence.

“These types of offences attract a minimum term of custody of five years. The sentence you receive will exceed that figure.”

And at Birmingham Crown Court, where Judge Hancox is now sitting, Buhary was jailed for 11 years, Addai-Brmpah for nine years, and Sidhu for eight years.

The judge said she did not consider the three men posed a ‘significant risk’ of committing further serious offences on their release, so was not passing extended sentences on them.