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Lethal weapons destroyed by police

Published: 7:00 PM September 8, 2009    Updated: 8:14 AM October 14, 2020

SAMURAI swords and an axe were found when police raided a flat in a drugs operation. Cops executed a drugs warrant at a flat in Kingward House in Hanbury Street, Spitalfields at 7.45am on Friday last week. Four samurai swords, a knife and an axe which wer

SAMURAI swords and an axe were found when police raided a flat in a drugs operation.

Cops executed a drugs warrant at a flat in Kingward House in Hanbury Street, Spitalfields at 7.45am on Friday last week.

Four samurai swords, a knife and an axe which were hidden around the flat in cupboards were voluntarily given to police.

The weapons have now been destroyed.

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