A MAN has been found guilty of conspiracy to sell or transfer firearms as part of a 'large scale' gun factory operation.

Mark Dyson, 52, of Seymour Court, Finchampstead has been found guilty of conspiracy to sell or transfer prohibited weapons, contrary to section 5(2)A of the Firearms Act 1968, after a trial at Reading Crown Court.

Jacob Peters, of Brunswick Hill, Reading, was also due to stand trial with Dyson but the 37-year-old pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a firearm without a certificate on October 9.

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A third man, Deyonte Bryan, 29, of Severn Way, Tilehurst, stood trial and was found not guilty by the jury.

Damon Phillips, 24, of no fixed abode, was also found not guilty after a trial earlier this year but a reporting restriction was in place until the end of Dyson, Peters and Bryan's trial.

The court heard that police found ‘dozens of handguns strewn’ throughout a home in London Road, Wokingham.

The address was searched on October 31 last year.

Three other people were also arrested at the address, Benjamin Phillips, 43 and Kenneth Britton, 33, who lived at the address, and Britton’s partner, Katie Lee.

Phillips and Britton have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sell or transfer prohibited firearms and conspiracy to sell or transfer ammunition.

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Lee, 30, of Munnings Drive, Sandhurst, has pleaded guilty to two offences of encouraging or assisting the manufacture of prohibited weapons and encouraging or assisting the sale or transfer of prohibited weapons.

During this trial, prosecutor Ian Hope explained that due to the scale of the operation, police believed that the guns were ‘destined for sale or transfer to organised criminal groups’ and it was ‘an organised criminal group that was preparing and selling them’.

The prosecution described the home as a ‘gun factory’ where blank or gas cartridge-firing self-loading pistols were found with the barrels drilled out, re-sleeved or replaced with hard metal tubing.

During the trial earlier this year, Mr Hope said: "Anyone wishing to use the sink or make a cup of tea would have had to lean across two handguns and more than three dozen gun cartridges whilst being very careful where they stepped.”

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A sentencing date has been scheduled to take place at the same court on Friday, December 8.