A MAN serving an 18-year prison sentence for minding an arsenal of lethal weaponry could be forced to hand over a cash sum and a number of vehicles in a confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Masih Ullah, 34, was brought back to Bradford Crown Court yesterday from jail after he was locked up in August for production of cannabis and possession of loaded guns and ammunition.

His case was adjourned until February 3, when he will again attend court.

Ullah, of no fixed address, was arrested after an industrial-scale drugs factory was busted by the police at NMR industrial unit in Abel Street, Wyke, Bradford.

Among items seized were a black balaclava mask, a crossbow, a loaded silver revolver and live rounds of ammunition.

Ullah was arrested the next day in Bradford with the keys to a Toyota iQ on him.

When police raided the car, parked in Sugden Street, Oakenshaw, they found a loaded sawn-off shotgun, a stolen Greater Manchester Police ballistic vest, a loaded Smith and Wesson revolver, an imitation Uzi sub machine gun, a single barrel shotgun, bars of gold and silver, 20 boxes of shotgun ammunition, expanding bullets and 50 rounds of hollow point ammunition.

Sentencing Ullah, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC told him: “This was a quantity of weapons with which gangsters and serious organised criminals could have wreaked mayhem."

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