Man fined for firing air rifle
A BICKTON man who fired a rifle beyond premises where it was allowed has been ordered to pay £607.
Peter John Cossburn, 42, fired the .22 break-barrel air rifle at Bickton Fish Farm on August 24, but the shot went outside the curtilege of the farm.
Magistrates in Southampton fined him £475 and ordered him to pay a victim surcharge of £47 and costs of £85.
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