A Belfast man allegedly saved a gun inside a child altering bag on the house of his unsuspecting aged dad and mom, a court docket heard at present,
John Thomas McCauley claimed he was ordered to maintain the weapon beneath menace of it getting used on him, a choose was instructed.
The 35-year-old, with an handle at College Avenue, was refused bail.
McCauley faces expenses of possessing a firearm in suspicious circumstances and having a amount of cocaine in reference to discoveries made final month.
Belfast Magistrates’ Court docket heard the suspected handgun and drug-related materials had been discovered as members of the family packed belongings at a property within the metropolis on August 22.
Throughout police interviews McCauley claimed that a man he didn't know gave him the firearm for safekeeping within the Newtownabbey space in Could this 12 months.
On the time the defendant had sustained a extreme beating and was instructed that if he refused the gun could be “used on him”, in accordance with his account.
Opposing his utility to be launched from custody, a detective recognized a possible threat to the general public.
“He put a firearm in his aged dad and mom’ sheltered lodging,” she alleged.
“It was saved (in an unsecure state) in a child altering bag.”
Defence solicitor Jonathan Burke argued that McCauley has no legal report and will reside at an handle exterior Belfast.
Bail was denied, nevertheless, on account of issues about additional offences being dedicated.
Remanding McCauley in custody till October 4, Decide Alan White stated: “(I regard his account) that he doesn’t know who gave him the firearm with the deepest scepticism.”