Harworth man given suspended sentence for affray
A JUDGE refused to believe a defendant's claim he was not poaching on private land near Blyth - telling him: "Pull the other one."
Railway worker Barry Thomas, 48, was in possesson of a weapon when a friend of the landowner stopped because he had seen a Freelander vehicle with a lamp on top.
Thomas threatened the man when confronted, at night on 16th December last year, Nottingham Crown Court was told.
When police went to his Thornhill Road, Harworth, home the next day, they found four air weapons.
In mitigation, it was said that Thomas would not have known he was on private land.
Last Thursday, Judge Dudley Bennett accepted there was no way Thomas could have known his air rifles needed certificates, because they were the wrong side of the air pressure line.
But the judge told him: "You say you were not poaching, pull the other one. When challenged, you threatened the other person and he saw you had a weapon."
Thomas admitted affray by way of threatening unlawful violence, and possession of a firearm without a certificate.
He was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work.
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