A 55-YEAR-OLD man appeared in court on Friday following a gun raid in Darford.

Mick Shepherd, of Wentworth Drive, Dartford, was charged with conspiracy to sell or transfer prohibited weapons and conspiracy to put people in fear.

He was also charged with conspiracy to sell or transfer prohibited ammunition and possession of prohibited weapons.

He appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody.

The case has been sent to the Old Bailey, and he is next due to appear on December 18.

Officers from the Met Police's Operation Trident unit, which investigates gun crime in the black community, raided two residential and one business address on Wednesday.