A MIGRANT in camouflage gear caught hunting in a park with a rifle told a court it was normal in his home country.
Pavel Jakes, 52, startled a dog walker who saw him in the undergrowth.
Armed cops seized an air rifle, telescopic sight, silencer and a baton.
Carpenter Jakes, who lives with his dog, said hunting birds was normal in the Czech Republic.
Michael Lee, defending at Manchester’s Minshull Street crown court, said: “Hunting was his pastime and in that country it is less regulated.”
Jakes admitted possessing a firearm and having an offensive weapon.
He got an eight-month suspended jail term and 180 hours of unpaid work.
Sentencing Jakes, Judge Tina Landale said: “One can imagine the scene – a man dressed in camouflage clothing and armed with a rifle emerging from the undergrowth in North Manchester in broad daylight.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/131744...ormal-country/
Now if I did the same I’d be serving the sentence in the big house along with the other convicts.