Driver pointed gun at man and later joked of scaring him

A Kerryman pointed a .22 rifle at a man having a sandwich outside his workplace in Cork and later joked about the fright he caused him.

John Jameson, aged around 60, of Cloontarrive, Gortatlea, Tralee, Co Kerry, could not see why he had been prosecuted in the first place. He said during an appeal yesterday: “It wasn’t loaded. It might as well have been a hurley.”

When Garda Sharon Sweeney caught up with Jameson and put to him the allegations made by Pereton Okudu, he had a different version of events.