'Naive' TikTok Punjabi video maker had imitation gun in Cork city pub

Gardaí received a call that a male witness had observed the defendant with a firearm in the toilet of the Old Oak Bar on Oliver Plunkett Street, Cork.

A music video maker who bought an imitation semi-automatic pistol for the Punjabi remixes he was putting on TikTok was “naïve in the extreme” to put the imitation weapon on top of a urinal when he was in a Cork city pub.

Judge Joanne Carroll made this comment about Ashish Douglas John’s naivety when she gave him the benefit of a dismissal under the Probation of Offenders Act for what would have been his first conviction of any kind.