A gang member from Bushey has been jailed for a string of drugs and firearms offences.

Romaine Callender, 22, of Woolmerdine Court, Bushey, was caged for ten years and six months for conspiracy to supply class A and class B drugs, and for conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon and ammunition.

He was one of five men, all members of a London gang, sentenced last Friday following a three-week trial at Harrow Crown Court.

The gang were discovered to be hiding firearms, ammunition, crack cocaine and heroin worth thousands of pounds in a park in Kingsbury.

Kamran Khan, 24, of Trevor Road, Edgware, was jailed for 12 years after being found guilty of conspiracy to supply class A drugs, including crack cocaine and heroin, to supply class B drugs, including cannabis, and for conspiracy to possess a prohibited weapon and ammunition.

Tevin Forde, 20, of The Rise, Mill Hill, pleaded guilty on September 18. He received a five-year sentence for conspiracy to supply class A drugs, including crack cocaine and heroin, and class B drugs.

Sean Cephinis, 33, of Clifton Avenue, Wembley was jailed for seven years and two months for conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin, and for possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin.

Aamir Yousef, 24, of Greenhill Road, Harlesden was also jailed for eight years for conspiracy to supply class A and class B drugs.

Police officers from the Trident Gang Crime Command discovered drugs with a street value of £2,000 in the park in Larkspur Close, Kingsbury, on January 8, after observing Callender in the open space.

The following day, Callender returned to the same place with Khan, Yousef, Forde and Cephinis.

Shortly afterwards, they were stopped in a vehicle driving away from the park and were found in possession of £3,000 worth of heroin.

Officers searched the part of the park the five had visited and discovered a sawn-off shotgun, a revolver, a pistol, a deactivated revolver and a magazine for a 9mm self-loading pistol buried in the ground, alongside more class A and class B drugs. 

Cephinis was later arrested in March, and was found in possession of crack cocaine and heroin with an approximate value of £7,000.

Detective Constable Richard Vanderpuije of the Met's Trident Gang Crime Command said: "I am pleased that these lethal firearms and ammunition have been removed from the streets of London.

"Drug dealing can only operate in an environment where fear or threat of violence is prevalent and there is no doubt that these firearms would have been used to injure, threaten or hurt someone."