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Gun was found in bushes

Gun was found in bushesThe gun used to shoot Jeremiah Dill was found in bushes more than eleven weeks after the attack, and linked to three other shootings, a jury heard.Noet Barnett, 25, is on trial accused of shooting Mr Dill, 28, outside a variety store in Pembroke on October 4 last year.According to prosecutor Rory Field, police found the gun inside a bag on a wall just a few minutes’ walk away from Mr Barnett’s home in St Monica’s Road, Pembroke, on December 22.The jury heard from Detective Constable Steven Palmer, a crime scene investigator, that the black drawstring bag was found in bushes on Eastgate Lane, Pembroke. A revolver was inside, wrapped in a red cut-off sleeve. A pair of gloves were also inside the bag.Det Con Palmer seized the items, along with a bullet found in the gun.Mr Field told the jury the gun was a Rexio RJ Serie .38 Special revolver. A firearms expert compared it to a bullet at the shooting scene and found the gun was the same one that fired the bullet.“The Rexio firearm was also found to have been used in three other shooting incidents which occurred both before and after the attempted murder,” said Mr Field, revealing that one was the murder of Raymond Troy “Yankee” Rawlins.The prosecutor continued: “A forensic link was then made between Mr Barnett and the gun; the same gun which had been used to shoot Mr Dill.”Besides charges of attempted murder and using a gun, Mr Barnett is charged with handling the Rexio firearm between the date of the shooting on October 4 and the date it was recovered, December 22. He denies all the charges and the case continues.