Two men with guns have been jailed after a dramatic police chase and the grounding of a plane at Heathrow.

Perrie Reese-Mason Ogodo, 20, and Israel Ankers, 23, fled after officers saw them accept a suspicious package from a teenager at 7pm on Wednesday, September 30.

Detectives tried to stop their car in Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea, and in a desperate attempt to escape they mounted the pavement and collided with a lamppost.

After scrambling out of their car they fled the scene – while officers searched the car and found a rucksack containing a Mac-10 sub-machine gun.

The weapon, capable of a fire rate of a thousand rounds a minute, was stored next to a magazine containing 17 rounds of ammunition.

Officers arrested Ankers in nearby Lurline Road shortly afterwards, while the teenage boy, who was just 16, was arrested at his home in Lambeth later that evening.

Meanwhile, with Ogodo still on the run, police circulated his details across the country.

On October 1, they found the fugitive had boarded a flight at Heathrow and dramatically grounded the aircraft just before take-off.

Stunned passengers watched as armed officers boarded the plane and arrested him.

On May 7, Kingston Crown Court found Ogodo and Ankers guilty of possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.

Officers later revealed it was the 16-year-old who led them to the men, as he was seen collecting a rucksack at a block of flats in Lambeth at 4.40pm on September 30.

The boy then went to garages in Winchester Close, Lambeth, where the sound of a gun being cocked was heard.

Officers followed him to Kennington, where he handed over the package to the two men.

On Monday, June 14, Ogodo, of Wandle Way, Earlsfield, was ordered to serve a minimum of six years, while Ankers, of Lucien Road, Tooting, was sentenced to nine years in prison.

The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of possessing a prohibited weapon and possession of ammunition.

He was sentenced to a two-year detention and training order on May 28.

Detective Inspector Angela Phillips, of the Metropolitan Police’s Trident unit, said: “These convictions are as a result of diligent detective work.

“I am pleased these obviously dangerous individuals have been removed from the streets of London.”