An Indian-origin man has been sentenced for more than six years of imprisonment for concealing a sawn-off shotgun in his family home in London.

Pawandeep Sandhu was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court in east London on Monday after the prohibited firearm was discovered in the bottom drawer of a wardrobe in his home.

The 21-year-old was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for one count of possession of a prohibited firearm and also given an extra three months, to be served consecutively, for a previously suspended sentence for possession of a knife.