POLICE are asking for the public's help to work out how a handgun came to be in a wooded area in Crawley.
A member of the public found the gun in woodland close to Lundy Close, in Broadfield.
The weapon is an Automatic Victoria and was found together with a magazine and five live bullets, wrapped in a couple of bin bags.
Police do not know how the weapon came to be there.
It has not been revealed when the gun was found.
It may have been dropped by someone, or hidden and disturbed by...
