Photo: ODT filesAn Oamaru man who posted a photo on Facebook of him holding a gun wishes he had stopped and thought about it beforehand, the Oamaru District Court heard yesterday. Leon Desmond Solomon (29) was sentenced to three months’ community detention, and nine months’ supervision for breaching a protection order by possessing a firearm and ammunition, on January 4 this year. On February 13 last year, a temporary protection order was placed against Solomon regarding his ex-partner, and the order became final three months later, on May 6. Defence counsel Kathryn Henry said there had been no question of the defendant contacting his children’s mother, and no other breaches of the protection order. He had the support of his mother in Oamaru, and was much more settled since moving from Christchurch.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 07, 2021 14:26 UTC