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Stock picture of a drone (left) and Swindon Magistrates' Court (right) Pictures: PEXEL/ADVER A DAD confronted the pilot of a drone he believed had been flown too low over his garden, where his young daughter was playing in a paddling pool. Peter Wells, 57, kicked the £1,200 drone down the road after it was brought into land, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard. Prosecutor Emma Charleton told magistrates the drone’s owner, who has a licence to fly the item and has lived in the same house for several decades, had had to bring the kit into land slowly on April 9 last year in order to avo...

By the time a police van arrived he had calmed down, Ms Charleton said. Magistrates heard Fox had 10 convictions on his record including an offence of knife possession. Fox, of Drakes Way, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly. He appeared in court via video link from the police station having been arrested on a warrant. Asked if he wanted to say anything in his own defence, Fox said: “I’m alright, thanks.” He was not working. The justices fined him £80 and ordered he pay £119 in costs and surcharge. Chairman of the bench Maryanne Burton said: “This is an order of ...