Watch: Moment we recover six guns from behind bath panel in Birmingham flat

This is the moment we seized a machine gun, a revolver and four other guns from behind a bath panel at a flat in Birmingham.

Firearms officers raided the home of Khiyume Seville and found the deadly cache concealed in bags hidden from view.

The Madsen submachine gun, capable of automatic fire, was seized along with a silver revolver, two pistols which had been converted from blank-firers to live weapons, and two other blank firing guns.

In one of the bedrooms at the flat, on Fir Tree Farm Drive, Stechford, we found welding and tooling equipment, along with a drill lathe and metal piping.

Seville, aged 24, admitted multiple charges relating to the possession of firearms and ammunition, and manufacturing prohibited firearms and ammunition.

Last Thursday, he was jailed for 13 years at Birmingham Crown Court.

Det Sgt Barry Heal, from the Major Crime Unit, said: “We had information that Seville may have been involved in the manufacture of prohibited weapons and the items recovered from his flat proved that to be the case.

“These weapons were capable of causing serious injury and death on the streets of the West Midlands. The Madsen in particular is a very unusual weapon to find. When we recovered it, it was in the process of being reactivated. The work was nearly complete, so we got there in the nick of time.

“The tools that Seville had enabled him to convert deactivated and blank firing weapons into live and viable firearms and ammunition, which would have gone on to be sold on to criminals for use.

“If we had not acted, it’s clear that he would gone on to make further weapons which would have caused untold harm in our communities.”

The jailing of Seville is part of Operation Target – our 24/7 mission to disrupt and arrest serious and organised criminals in the West Midlands.
Criminals involved in guns, drugs, money laundering and exploitation are all in our sights.

Find out more 👉 Operation Target | West Midlands Police