Tue May 17, 2022 12:56 pm
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<aviation connexion >
"Cotswolds man cleared of shining laser at police helicopter which he thought was 'alien craft'"
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/n ... er-7090137
'.. District Judge Wattam told Mr Wilsdon: “It is not in dispute that during the early hours of November 13, 2020 a police helicopter was tracking would be burglars over the village of Blockley, near Moreton-in-Marsh, but you struck the aircraft with a laser beam three of four times.
"This is an extremely dangerous thing to be doing. However you have relied on the defence of having a reasonable excuse for shining the laser beam towards this helicopter."
..
“I don’t want to make too much of what Mr Wilsdon did, but I accept that his behaviour was not logical. In fact it was clearly illogical, nonsensical and dangerous.
“But the fact is that there is a clear medical opinion that Mr Wilsdon was suffering from a cognitive impairment at the time. .."
"Cotswolds man cleared of shining laser at police helicopter which he thought was 'alien craft'"
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/n ... er-7090137
'.. District Judge Wattam told Mr Wilsdon: “It is not in dispute that during the early hours of November 13, 2020 a police helicopter was tracking would be burglars over the village of Blockley, near Moreton-in-Marsh, but you struck the aircraft with a laser beam three of four times.
"This is an extremely dangerous thing to be doing. However you have relied on the defence of having a reasonable excuse for shining the laser beam towards this helicopter."
..
“I don’t want to make too much of what Mr Wilsdon did, but I accept that his behaviour was not logical. In fact it was clearly illogical, nonsensical and dangerous.
“But the fact is that there is a clear medical opinion that Mr Wilsdon was suffering from a cognitive impairment at the time. .."
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