A young mum called the police when her drunk ex-boyfriend turned up at her house with a loaded gun. Pheleim Andrews, from Fallowfield, was alleged to have pointed the weapon at at Caitlin Mawdsley while she was home alone with their little boy.
They argued when he turned up at her house in Prescot, in Merseyside, in the middle of the night and she called 999 after he finally left in a taxi, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Armed police stopped on the vehicle on the M62 on the way to back to Manchester and seized a self-loading Baikal pistol. Alaric Walmsley, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court: "This firearm was loaded with seven bullets: six in the magazine and one in the chamber. "The safety catch was off, meaning that the weapon was ready
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