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'Unstable' man walks free after swinging axe at police officers and threatening to shoot them with air rifle

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Sign up to the MyTameside newsletter here to keep abreast of what's happening in your neighbourhood An ‘emotionally unstable’ man has walked free from court after he swung an axe at police officers and threatened to shoot them with an with an air rifle, a court heard.

Paul Ashworth said that he didn’t want to hurt anybody but himself and could not recall waving his axe. This was because he had shot himself with the rifle before police officers forced entry into his bedroom - which he had locked himself inside, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

The North West Ambulance Service was called to Ashworth’s home address at Printers Fold, Hollingworth, Hyde, on the evening of March 29 after he had taken an overdose.

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