Man fined £150 over weapon

A man found with an offensive weapon at a roadblock in Dungannon arising out of the Orangemen's stand off at Drumcree last July…

A man found with an offensive weapon at a roadblock in Dungannon arising out of the Orangemen's stand off at Drumcree last July has been fined £150.

Cookstown Magistrates' court was told yesterday that Trevor George Robinson (37), a joiner, of Fairfield, Dungannon, had an 14 inch length of copper wire encased in hard plastic when searched by police.

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