A door security boss has pleaded guilty to burglary and possession of a sawn-off shotgun.

Christian Mayers has been remanded in custody after he appeared before Deemster Graeme Cook on Friday.

Having previously denied the burglary charge in the lower courts, the 44-year-old, who is the managing director of Arca Ltd, pleaded guilty to both offences at his first appearance before the Court of General Gaol Delivery.

It was previously stated in the summary courts that on Saturday, May 9, at just after 5.10pm, a couple returned to their Anagh Coar home having been out walking their dog and saw a man getting into a blue Ford car. They believed he had come out of their home.

When they went into their home, they discovered a Play Station 4 computer game and controllers were missing and they rang the police. When the police arrived, officers began searching the area for the car and the man they had seen.

They found the car parked near Springfield Grange residential home. The driver of the car said he was waiting for his father.

Shortly after at 5.25pm, Mayers was seen by officers who considered him as matching the description of the man who the couple had seen coming out of their house.

They observed him walking along Cushag Road with a white carrier bag. As he approached the police van, Mayers was seen to bend down and when he stood up, he no longer had the bag.

Officers stopped Mayers and arrested him on suspicion of burglary.

Having believed the bag may contain the items stolen from the house, police searched for the bag.

When they found it, they discovered it contained a loaded sawn-off shotgun with 34 live rounds and one spent cartridge.

Mayers, who lives in Ashley Park, Onchan, made no reply to caution but the PS4 and the controllers were found in the boot in the boot of the car hidden under a coat.

In an interview, Mayers said he had gone to the address to allow his son to apologise to the parents of a girl he had been seeing. Mayers said the PS4 had been taken due to a debt owed to his stepson.

He also claimed he had found the shotgun in the street and was going to tell the police about it but that he didn’t get a chance. Mayers said: ’To think I’d be waving a shotgun about is ridiculous. I wouldn’t even know how to fire it.’

There is no evidence to suggest the gun was used in the burglary.

At the time of his first appearance in May, prosecutor Rebecca Cubbon said: ’The shotgun is now off the streets but how it came to be there is a concern.’

On Friday Deemster Cook delayed sentencing until November 27 to allow for psychiatric and social enquiry reports to be completed.

Deemster Cook said that if the case had been heard in England or Wales, the firearm offence alone would carry with it a five-year sentence.