A CINDERFORD man has been jailed for 14 months for parading a rifle whilst being drunk and deliberately menacing on June 26.

Armed police attended the incident in Commercial Street with bodycam footage being played in court.

In the dock at Gloucester Crown Court was Michael Bullock, aged 50, who admitted an affray and possessing a firearm whilst prohibited.

Judge Michael Cullum jailed him for 14 months and said he had ’paraded’ the rifle with telescopic sights and silencer in the street whilst ’drunk and agitated’ and he was ’deliberately menacing’.

The court heard that Bullock had become frustrated that damage to the ceiling of his flat due to an overflowing bath in the flat above him, had not been repaired.

Prosecutor, Janine Wood said that this had resulted in Bullock taking to drinking cider at 6am on Tuesday, June 26 and by 4.45pm he had consumed three litres, she told the court.

The court was shown the body cam footage taken from one of the armed officers that responded to the seen. An officer could be heard shouting “He’s got a gun.”

Bullock seemed initially slow to respond to the armed officer’s requests before complying and dropping his knees, and being cuffed on the street.

Mrs Wood said: “The officers saw him with a long barrelled rifle in his hands, and he was clearly intoxicated.”

Sentencing Bullock the judge said: “You were agitated and drunk. You were not entitled to possess the weapon. You knew that. You paraded it in public therefore it has to be a custodial sentence.”