A pensioner pulled an imitation gun on his neighbour in a bizarre incident at a sheltered housing complex. Anthony Law, 73, knocked on his neighbour's door while holding a realistic-looking black 'handgun'. "F****** put the lights on," Law said after the neighbour opened up, before pointing the 'gun' at him.
After a brief struggle, he shut the door and Law walked off. Manchester Crown Court heard Law had been 'very distressed' that the electricity had not been working in his flat, and mistakenly believed that his neighbour who lived in the floor below was an electrician.
The pair were neighbours in sheltered accommodation on Oswald Close in Salford, but had never met before. READ MORE : Salford gangsters used 'Man City' password for secret handover of £1m cocaine stash stolen from Liverpool gang It was at about 9am on February 11 when he began to hear Law knocking on the door.
When he opened up he saw Law holding an item in his hand. "He couldn't see the item clearly but he believed it was some form of gun due to the way in which the defendant was holding it," prosecutor Duncan Wilcock said.
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