Man claims air pistol was for shooting cans in garden

A young man caught with a stun gun and an air pistol during a search of his home claimed he had the pistol for shooting cans in his garden and the stun gun as an ornament.

“Some ornament,” Judge Aingil Ní Chondúin remarked on hearing this evidence at Cork District Court yesterday.

The home of Roy Carroll at 13 Farranferrris Park, Farranree, Cork, was searched by Garda Jeremy Murphy.