Police found shotgun in blood-spattered kitchen after being called to disturbance at flat in Leeds

Officers discovered the weapon, which was in full working order, after being called to the property on Meadow View, Hyde Park.

Teenager Caleb Masinya was locked up for 16 months after Leeds Crown Court heard how he handed himself into police and admitted responsibility for delivering the weapon to the flat.

Prosecutor Bashir Ahmed described the circumstances of the case as "unusual".

Mr Ahmed said Masiyna left his father's house on Oakland Court, Woodhouse, Leeds, with another man on March 4 this year.

The defendant was carrying a blue holdall and the pair got into a taxi, which took them to an address near HFC Chicken in Hyde Park.

The pair went into a flat on Meadow View and a disturbance took place in the kitchen.

A maintenance manager, whose office is on the ground floor of the complex, went up to the flat.

Mr Ahmed said there were blood splatters on the kitchen floor and bathroom walls.

Police were called and they both escaped through the bathroom window shortly before officers arrived.

The officers found a single-barrel shotgun in a holdall in the kitchen.

It was in full working order and Masiyna's DNA was found at the scene.

Mr Ahmed said women who lived in the flat did not help officers with their enquiries.

The other male was not charged.

Masiyna handed himself in at Elland Road police station a week later.

The 19-year-old pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm without a certificate.

He has a previous conviction for possession of a class A drug with intent to supply.

The court was told that Masiyna had been held responsible for the loss of £700 and he was repaying that debt by delivering the firearm.

David Hall, mitigating, said: "This is clearly a case of a young man delivering a gun from A to B.

"There is nothing to suggest there was anything more than that; there was no ammunition; there are no aggravating features to it."

Judge Mushtaq Khokhar told Masiyna: "The fact remains that you placed yourself in the company of people who were involved in criminality for whom you performed this particular task."

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