A GUNSMITH who converted replica weapons into working machine guns used in a series of gangland murders was facing jail last night.
Grant Wilkinson adapted the guns Replica Jaeger-LeCoultre Watches in a garden shed before they were sold on and used by criminals including the gang that killed PC Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford.
Yesterday he was found guilty of supplying criminals with the weapons - Mac-10s. The guns have been linked to nine murders.
Wilkinson, 34, of no Franck Muller Watches fixed abode, modified the weapons in the back yard of a derelict house in Berkshire which he rented out to tenants. The adapted guns were sold on to criminals.
Denis Burke, of the Crown Prosecution Service's Complex Case Unit, said: "Wilkinson established a firearms factory in a suburb of Reading. The firearms have since been used in all our big cities"