Former police worker charged with firearm offences

Zoe Watts was a police community support officer in Lincolnshire for more than eight years

A former Lincolnshire Police worker has been accused of multiple firearms offences.

Zoe Watts, who had worked as a police community support officer for more than eight years, was arrested after armed police were called to her home in Lincoln on Wednesday.

She is charged with possessing a firearm when prohibited for five years, possession of a firearm without a certificate and manufacturing a firearm weapon.

The 38-year-old, of St Helen's Avenue, did not enter any pleas when she appeared at Lincoln Magistrates' Court on Friday and has been remanded into custody until 13 January when she is due to appear at Lincoln Crown Court.

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