Images show ammunition and drugs found by police at St Helens home

The Star reported earlier this week as Carl Donohue, of Kent Road, Sutton, was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court after he was caught with lethal rounds of ammunition and more than £100,000 worth of drugs.

On the afternoon of June 23, last year police had stopped a BMW on Linacre Road, in Bootle.

Carl Donohue was sentenced on Monday (Image: Merseyside Police)

The driver, who was not before the court, was found with a mobile phone with a voice message from someone who wanted to obtain a firearm and ammunition.

There was also a photograph of drugs and a drug dealer’s tick list and it led police to execute a search warrant at Carl Donohue’s home in Kent Road, Sutton, where he was present.

Items seized by police at Donohue's home (Image: Merseyside Police)

The search uncovered £22,470 cash, several mobile phones, a cash counting machine, scales and a stolen motorbike, three magazines for a self-loading Glock pistol and a total of 217 rounds of ammunition.

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These involved two boxes containing 108 different varieties of 9mm rounds for self-loading pistols and sub-machine guns.

There were 89 Remington 5.56 rounds and two plastic slips containing 20 5.56 rounds. 

Items seized by police at Donohue's home (Image: Merseyside Police)

Mr Riding said some were soft-nosed bullets designed to expand on impact designed for a rifle.

Police also found cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and a kilo of cutting agent for the cocaine.

There was just over half a kilo of cocaine of import quality purity with a street value of up to £52,000; 15,119 ecstasy tablets worth £150,000 and five kilos of pink ketamine which was believed to have been adulterated with ecstasy.

Ammunition was found at Donohue's home (Image: Merseyside Police)

Donohue pleaded guilty to possessing ammunition without a certificate; possessing criminal property and possessing ecstasy, cocaine and ketamine with intent to supply and was sentenced on Monday, January 22.

The 37-year-old dad was jailed for 14 years and three months.

Following Donohue's sentencing, Detective Constable Beth Flintham said: “In this case we removed a significant amount of ammunition and Class A drugs from our streets. 

“We are committed to making Merseyside a safer place, and information from communities makes a big difference.

"So if you know where dangerous weapons are being stored, carried or used, let us know and we will take positive action."

Donohue was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court (Image: Newsquest)

She added: “If you know anything about the storage, movement or use of such weapons, please come forward directly or anonymously via Crimestoppers.

“It is vital that members of our communities come forward with such information so we can make Merseyside stronger, safer and secure.”

• Anyone with information about the use or storage of weapons and drugs can pass it on to police via DM @MerPolCC, ‘Merseyside Police Contact Centre’ on Facebook.  Alternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Always call 999 if a crime is in progress.