The ex-owner of a lap dancing club has been jailed for five years after police found a gun, ammunition and drugs and at his home.

Graeme Dean, 40, was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court last Thursday, September 15 along with his fiancée, model and aspiring actress Suzy Deakin.

The Metropolitan Police murder squad, SD1, raided their home in Cheam Close, Tadworth in May 2009.

The raid was part of an investigation into a shooting in Bristol in 2004 after which Dean faced a charge of causing grievous bodily harm, although the charge was subsequently dropped.

In the house they discovered a laptop bag, found to contain a loaded Baikal pistol wrapped in a sock, and a magazine loaded with bullets.

They also found a black balaclava, a sheath knife on top of a toilet cistern, 390 US dollars and 635 Euros hidden in a wardrobe, and small amount of drugs.

A vibrator and two plastic balls, together with a set of scales and a bag containing cocaine was found in a plastic bag.

Dean, who is director of a company called Adult Entertainment Limited, registered at his Tadworth home, claimed he knew nothing about the weapon and that his partner had been using cocaine, although he denied knowing about the drugs, insisting that he never used any himself.

He claimed the dollars and Euros were there for holidays and birthdays while the balaclava had been used in sex games.

Dean denied charges of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possession of a prohibited weapon having ammunition, possession of cocaine and GHB with intent to supply, and possession of cannabis resin, but was convicted on all of them.

With him in the dock was Miss Deakin, 33, who was a model for paranormal magazine Haunted and appeared as a seductive high priestess in psychological thriller The Stone, released last year.

She admitted having a prohibited weapon, possessing cocaine and cannabis and was given a 12 months prison sentence suspended for two years.

Deakin, who suffers from mental health problems, claimed the gun had been among a quantity of her brother’s belongings which she had taken to Cheam Close from her mother’s house.

Dean is now taking legal advice on a possible appeal against his conviction for possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear and violence.

Judge Tim Stow QC said he had been surprised at the jury’s verdict relating to the gun and he added that there was no evidence to indicate that the gun might have been used with hostile intent.

He told Dean: "I don’t intend to speculate as to what circumstances in which you would retrieve the weapon and frighten someone."

Dean’s sentence will be substantially reduced to take into account a 16 months tagged curfew that he has already served.

Deakin’s suspended sentence carries a condition that she continues to live in Cheam Close or Epsom Hospital, where she is a patient under the Mental Health Act.