South London man pulls gun on bailiffs who tried to repossess his house then ends up in tensstandoff

South London man pulls weapon on bailiffs who attempted to repossess his home then, at that point, winds up in tense deadlock with police
Richard Todd has been imprisoned for a long time

Richard Todd became forceful when the bailiffs turned up

A man who undermined bailiffs with a stacked weapon prior to pointing it at furnished cops in a strained

20-minute deadlock has been imprisoned for quite some time. Richard Todd, 52, became forceful when bailiffs went up to repossess

his home in Lewisham on Wednesday, February 16 this year.

Subsequent to going into the house, Todd stood up to the two district court bailiffs holding a stacked handgun.

The bailiffs left and called the police, who sent equipped units to the scene

; they were met by Todd and furthermore had the gun pointed at them.
Following a 20-minute stalemate they figured out how to get Todd to put down his weapon and he was captured prior to being charged two days after the fact.

An inquiry of Todd's home found a munititions stockpile of additional ammo, including 25 bulleted cartridges and 24 shotgun shells,

alongside a tactical armor carrier. Todd's weapon was viewed as a gun style air gun that had been changed over completely to a suitable deadly gun and was

Stacked with six rounds of live shots.

The changed over air gun utilized by Todd to undermine police and bailiffs

Todd, of Foxberry Street in Lewisham, was condemned at Woolwich Crown Court on December 19 to five years in jail.

He confessed at a past hearing to two counts of ownership of a gun with purpose to cause dread of savagery,

ownership of a denied weapon and ownership of ammo without an endorsement.
DC Theo Green, from the Met Police's South East Order Unit, said:

"Nobody hopes to have a weapon pointed at them while they're approaching their work. This probably been a really unnerving encounter for the two bailiffs.

Shotgun cartridges additionally found in the hunt

"I might likewise want to make a move to commend my partners in the Guns Order who answered that day.

The self-control they showed, and their capacity to talk a shooter down, shows genuine impressive skill. The result of that day might have been vastly different."

DCS Donna Smith, of the Met's Gun Order, added:

"This episode exhibits the valiance and incredible skill of our guns officials,

who stand up to episodes like this consistently to safeguard the general population and unarmed officials.

"This was one of the roughly 4,000 unconstrained guns episodes we answered over the

most recent a year and shows how our officials will utilize their relational abilities to de-raise and close an episode securely

. I'm very glad for their reaction that day."