But he didn't abandon the "weapon mindset" with the Japanese katana swords he purchased. "Samurai swords, I think, are pretty dang cool," Burrow told reporters in December 2024.

On the evening of July 9, Lee Holmes was given a machete, a flick knife and two samurai swords. It’s not what you’d normally expect a 50-year-old to be doing in his spare time.

Stephen Burrows and Jack Howes who ran a drug line in Lowestoft have been given jail sentences totalling more than four years.