The former toy shop worker armed himself with the imitation firearm as he believed 'three or four people were after him' ...

A man who went to the pub with a toy gun and body armour, a thug who slashed a shop owner's face and three drug dealing brothers were among the Merseyside criminals jailed over the past seven days.

A man bought a toy gun and body armour online and took them to Wetherspoons. Stewart Warburton dropped the imitation firearm from a holster on his person as he was being searched by police in the pub.