Michael Eric Day, right, handed over the imitation firearm to a Tesco store security guard A MAN who stole a can of Red Bull from a Tesco store told a security guard “I have a gun”. Michael Eric Day handed over an imitation Glock-style pistol to the Bournemouth town centre store detective and asked him to put it in the bin, Bournemouth Crown Court heard. Day, 25, and of Nortoft Road, Bournemouth, pleaded guilty to charges of theft and possession of an imitation firearm while committing an offence. Prosecuting, Tom Wright said the defendant shoplifted a single can of Red Bull from the Tesco shop in Bourne Avenue on February 13.
Poole Magistrates Court AN UNINSURED drink driver who was more than four times the legal limit has been handed a suspended prison sentence. Wojciech Babiarz, 36, was said to have been at the wheel of a Ford Focus in Worgret Road, Wareham, on June 19 last year. District judge Stephen Nicholls, sitting at Poole Magistrates’ Court, was told he provided a sample of 143 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – the legal limit is 35 micrograms. The court heard the defendant, of Nortoft Road, Bournemouth, also did not have insurance at the time of the drink driving incident. Babiarz admitted both driving offences, as well as failing to surrender to custody at court on October 20, 2020, having been bailed the previous month.