Ex-pop star walks free after pub gun threat

FORMER British pop star Adam Ant walked free from court yesterday after a judge ruled that he had used a gun to threaten pub customers who laughed at his cowboy attire because he was suffering mental problems.

The judge at London’s Old Bailey decided that the 1980s pop star, who had pleaded guilty to affray in August, should not be treated as a criminal over the incident because he was suffering from an episode of mental illness at the time.

Ant, who appeared under his real name Stuart Goddard, had marched into the Prince of Wales pub in north London last January dressed in a cowboy hat and combat jacket.