A MAN has been jailed for five and a half years after admitting possession of a gun.

Joshua Heathcote (right), 21, of Turnsteads Drive, Cleckheaton, was one of four men sentenced in connection with possession of a semi-automatic pistol.

The gun was found when police searched a Volkswagen Passat in Huddersfield last May.

Jamie Simpson, 29, of Huddersfield, George Sweeney, 33, and Lewis Tynan, 24, both of Merseyside, were jailed for a total of 24 years in connection with the weapon, as well as ammunition and cannabis that was found.

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