After spending a month in prison on remand, Adrian King, aged 21, has been given a twelve-month community order with fifteen rehabilitation activity sessions to address drug use and 40 hours of unpaid work for the benefit of the community. The court heard that during an argument at the family home in Stroud, Gloucestershire, King pointed a BB gun at his mother and fired it near her before pointing the weapon at his father's chest and firing a plastic pellet at his shin, causing him short term pain. He then handed himself in at the local police station. King had originally been charged with possessing an imitation firearm and assaulting his father, causing him actual bodily harm; however, a judge accepted his guilty plea to an affray as an alternative.