Judge tells defendant he could have ended up dead if he had behaved in a similar way in America
A Lisburn man who left shoppers in fear of their lives by walking around a busy shopping centre with a gun and a knife “in full public view” was handed a two year sentence today .
He told Wallace, who sat in the dock with his head bowed throughout the 40 minute hearing, that while he knew the handgun tucked into his waistband only fired ball bearings, neither the police nor witnesses at the scene knew that which “emphasises the considerable danger that the people around the defendant felt”.
Sporting tattoos and a “Neo nazi cross”, Wallace was asked to put a shirt on but he threatened the guard “I’ll get you done”. Mr Tannahill said while it was his duty to open the facts and not pass comment on them, “it’s impossible to go through the facts without mentioning the bravery that he displayed in the situation”.
As he was behind cuffed, Wallace shouted about “being a soldier and Covid-19 was his enemy….and he directly asked police to shoot him”, the court heard.The lawyer said two further air soft weapons, a rifle and another handgun and a quantity of stolen clothes and a bottle of Southern Comfort were uncovered in a rucksack Wallace had with him.
Mr Tannahill said while it was “obviously a frightening situation” for people in the shopping centre, “we accept that this is an unusual case and may not sit entirely easily with the normal approach in firearms cases”.
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