Mohammed Doudar: Bexley man had gun in shopping bag.

For the everyday man a Woolworths shopping bag is used to cart home groceries. But at the home of one man, it contained a deadly weapon.

For the everyday man a Woolworths shopping bag is used to cart home bread, milk and maybe some chocolate.

But at the home of Bexley father Mohammed Doudar, it contained a deadly weapon and ammunition.

The 36-year-old truck driver cum greenkeeper pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a modified ‘Stalker’ brand pistol after police seized the weapon during a raid on a Bexley property in March 2018.

Mohammed Doudar outside Downing Centre Court. Picture: Joel Carrett

The property, which Doudar rented, had a separate garage with three roller doors. Inside the coil of one of the roller doors police found a ‘Stalker’ brand pistol, court documents state.

The gun was hidden inside a Woolworths shopping bag, which also contained a magazine and more than 100 cartridges.

“The basis of the offender’s possession of the pistol is that he could be reasonably expected to have known that the pistol was or in the premises of the garage,” the agreed facts state.

Court documents also revealed the pistol had been modified.

Following the police raid, Doudar was remanded in custody for about five months before he was granted bail.

The court heard Doudar’s wife had recently delivered an ultimatum to the 36-year-old, threatening to stay in Egypt unless he stopped drinking and gambling.

Since his release on bail, Doudar has volunteered at a Bardwell Valley Golf Club golf club to land himself full-time work as a greenkeeper.

The court heard the married father was one of eight children, and had been stressed by an increased family responsibility with his older brother in jail. Doudar himself also previously served time behind bars in relation to an armed robbery over a decade ago.

Judge Ian McClintock SC convicted Doudar and sentenced him to two years jail, to be served in the community as an intensive corrections order.