Armed police called as roof-top dad says he’s got a sub-machine gun
Saturday 25th June 2011, 2:30PM BST.
ARMED police were called to the Wayside Cheer Hotel when a father protesting about rights to see his child threw fireworks from the roof.
Benjamin Troalic broke his foot in three places as he fell getting off the roof after a two-and-a-half-hour standoff during which he claimed he had an MP 40 sub-machine gun.
In the Magistrate’s Court, Troalic, 29, admitted using or threatening unlawful violence and causing criminal damage to roof tiles and guttering.
He was sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years, two years’ supervision and 90 hours’ community service, and was ordered to pay £515 compensation.
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It’s just as well we got that ARV on the Island when we did then, isn’t it?
What with Bombs at LMDC school and machine gun toting “fathers for justice” and the like, it must’ve paid for itself by now!
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Modern day guernsey.
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did he have the gun or what? claiming you got an mp40 seems very well thought of, and it dont say if he had it or not…
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been playing too much call of duty methinks
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Hes lucky that he was in Guernsey- the UK police love an excuse to test their latest weaponry.
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Abrihaaaam, no he didnt have a gun at all.
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@PBFalla – methinks the MP40 was more common in 1940s Guernsey than the modern day…. ;-)
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