Overview
- Stephen Smith, 60, admitted using threatening or abusive behaviour and possessing ammunition without a certificate at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court.
- District Judge Orla Austin imposed a 12-month community order with 80 hours’ unpaid work, plus £85 costs and a £114 victim surcharge.
- Prosecutors said Smith drove his tractor to the teenager’s home after drinking, shouted abuse at the boy’s mother, and threatened to “get my gun and shoot you all.”
- The confrontation followed Smith finding the teen outside his daughter’s bedroom earlier that day, after the girl had invited him to watch the sunrise.
- The defence said the conduct was out of character and that firearms at his home were locked away, as neighbours’ reports prompted a police response at about 11.30pm.