That’s a deadly catch! Three brothers aged 14, five, and four find GUNS in canal during magnet fishing trips
- Reece Nixon, 14, found a World War One machine gun at the bottom of a canal
- His brother Riley fished out a handgun about a year later
- Their younger brother found a BB gun on his first fishing trip
THREE brothers with a passion for magnet fishing have hauled out deadly catches – a gun each.
Reece Nixon, 14, was the first to come across a weapon when he found a World War One machine gun at the bottom of a canal.
That find a year ago was followed by a handgun fished out by younger brother Riley, five.
Then last Sunday four-year-old Leo found a BB gun on one of his first fishing expeditions.
Gun fishing: Leo Nixon, four, with BB weapon
Riley, five, with handgun and Reece Nixon, 14, with a World War One machine gun
The wartime weapon, a Vickers. is now in a museum, while investigations have found the German handgun was used in an armed robbery.
The brothers, from Leeds, regularly go magnet fishing – in which a magnet attached to a rope is dangled into water to locate metallic objects – in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
The boys’ father William, 49, took the first two guns to the police.