{"id":870701,"date":"2026-04-04T03:29:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/870701\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:29:15","slug":"london-mayors-protection-officers-relieved-of-duties-after-bag-of-guns-misplaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/870701\/","title":{"rendered":"London mayor\u2019s protection officers relieved of duties after bag of guns \u2018misplaced\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armed police guarding London Mayor <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/sadiq-khan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sadiq Khan<\/a> left a bag of guns outside his home which was found by a member of the public, it was reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Scaffolder Jordan Griffiths told The Sun that his pregnant girlfriend found the bag in south London on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Inside the bag was an MP5 semi-automatic Heckler &amp; Koch carbine, a Glock pistol, taser and ammunition, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMy partner saw the bag sitting in the road by the kerbside and became suspicious. She went over to it and kicked it to see what it might be. But it was really heavy and didn\u2019t move,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt was lucky one of the guns inside didn\u2019t go off or else she and our baby, due next month, could have been shot and killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Griffiths said he was in \u201cshock\u201d after discovering what was inside.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe bag was really heavy. I thought it might be full of coins and took it inside using both my hands because of its weight. I took it upstairs and put it on my bed and opened the bag up. I could not believe my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police guarding London Mayor Sadiq Khan left a bag of guns outside his home which was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,247125,393,47829,4884,188546,247124,257,135,123944,14252,21058,25827,247123,16,15],"class_list":["post-870701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-directorate-of-professional-standards","tag-england","tag-glock","tag-great-britain","tag-heckler-koch","tag-jordan-griffiths","tag-london","tag-metropolitan-police","tag-mp","tag-sadiq-khan","tag-scmp","tag-south-london","tag-taser","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116344322105647726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}