Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A vodka-fuelled man with a BB gun was involved in a six-hour stand-off with armed cops - causing 'fear and terror on the streets'.
James Bond, 55, threatened to 'leather' his neighbours, and shoot them, after they complained about him playing loud music and banging on the walls.
The morning police arrived at his New Moston home - after Bond caused a ruckus overnight - he appeared in an upstairs window brandishing a BB gun.
He told cops he would 'shoot them in the teeth', adding: "F*** off out my garden." Officers retreated, before armed police and negotiators were called in.
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