THE MAN who triggered an armed siege after threatening to shoot his family has been ordered to keep the peace.
Martyn Hannaford, 29, of Preston Road, Weymouth, sparked the three-hour stand-off after he threatened to shoot his wife and baby.
After the terrified mum fled the flat with her baby, elite firearms officers surrounded the property and a specially-trained negotiator was brought in to calm the situation.
Hannaford, described by police as “vulnerable”, gave himself up and was arrested.
Police later seized an air rifle and a shotgun from the flat. No one was injured.
Yesterday at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, he was ordered to pay £500 for breaching a previous order to keep the peace.
He was also ordered to keep the peace for an additional 12 months, or face paying £1,000.
The drama unfolded on Saturday at 1pm, after Hannaford arrived at the address he shares with his parents, wife and their young baby.
Hannaford, who has a history of alcohol abuse and violent behaviour, was bound over to keep the peace just six weeks previously.
Elizabeth Valera, prosecuting, told the court he’d arrived in a drunken rage and starting banging on the door.
After his mother eventually let him in, he marched upstairs to the separate flat he shares with his wife and started pacing the floor and speaking on a mobile phone.
His wife said: “He was drunk. He was talking in a different way. He was shouting at us.”
She overheard him say he had an air rifle and was going to shoot the baby then her.
The woman, who told police she was uncertain he was going to shoot, added: “I was shaking all over with fear and I didn’t know what to expect.”
Tim Shorter, defending, said: “He does not accept considerable parts of the facts put forward.”
But he added Hannaford agreed a breach of the peace had occurred.
“It was an unpleasant and somewhat distasteful incident,” said Mr Shorter.
“But he learned his lesson after finding himself on the wrong end of a number of police firearms.”
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