Man spared prison over gun threat after sheep row

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Man spared prison over gun threat after sheep row
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Brian Capstick pressed a revolver against William Hodgson's face over a £200 debt in December 2019.

Brian Capstick was arrested days later for a separate gun-related incident at his parents' home in Cumbria

A court heard Mr Hodgson, 68, owed Capstick £200 for using his land in Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, to graze sheep.The High Court in Glasgow heard that case resulted in a five-year prison sentence and he had since been released.In March Capstick, 52, pled guilty to a breach of the peace and two separate firearms charges related to the encounter on the B723 near Boreland on 11 December 2019.

But prosecutor Angela Gray told the court he still owed Capstick £200 for that service three years later.Capstick then took a gun from a plastic bag, leapt out of his van and declared: "I have had enough of this."

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