A grandad who spent seven months in prison for arming himself with a cigarette lighter shaped like a handgun after "unruly yobs" threw stones towards his home has been released.
David Chapman called police at 9.39pm on April 20 reporting there were youths outside his home in Hudson Road, Sunderland, throwing things at his windows and arguing. Officers turned up a few minutes later and Chapman was outside with some other people.
Then at 10.29pm police got a further call from someone, reporting that Chapman had been outside his home with a black handgun or pellet gun and officers returned to the scene around 12.15am. His home was searched and they found a cigarette lighter shaped like a Beretta handgun and a carbon dioxide powered air pistol.
