The spectacular fall from grace of nurse who stashed AK47 in loft for crime gang

A former nurse who stored an AK47 in her loft for a crime gang has been jailed for five years.

Dannell Jammeh, 39, worked as a nurse for 15 years, and was described as hard working and thoughtful.

But when police raided the home she shared with her boyfriend Mark Crolla, they made a chilling discovery.

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Hidden in the loft of a property was a deactivated AK47, with a loaded magazine containing spent bullets.

The gun had been stashed there by Jammeh without Crolla's knowledge.

Crolla, 40, a dad-of-three who worked for a security firm, was jailed for five-and-a-half years after police found reactivated guns at his mother's house.

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Both had stored the guns on behalf of criminals.

A judge said it had not been explained exactly how Jammeh, who has a daughter in her 20s studying at university, had come to be involved.

"For somebody in your position, seemingly well respected and hard working, this for you is a considerable fall from grace," a judge told her.

Former solider Joey Hodskinson, 32, and accomplice Martin Joyce, 38, were also locked up.

Hodskinson, who served in Afghanistan, put his knowledge of weapons to criminal use after finding the transfer to civvy street 'hard', Manchester Crown Court.

He transferred a number of deactivated guns back into live deadly weapons.

It comes amid growing