A man armed with an air pistol has been jailed for subjecting the household of a coach rent boss to what a sheriff referred to as "a terrifying ordeal".
Neal O'Donnell, 28, pointed the gun at his accomplice's brother after members of the family went to help her throughout a home row.
Derek Dewar Jnr reacted by punching O'Donnell to the face and disarmed him.
A court docket heard that Mr Dewar Jnr had been requested by his father, Derek Dewar Snr., 61, boss of Falkirk bus firm Dewar Coaches, to go to his daughter Ami's home in Camelon, Falkirk, to test on his mom Linda, who had gone over there earlier.
When Mr Dewar Jnr received there, he noticed O'Donnell performing aggressively.
O'Donnell then produced "what seemed to be a small black handgun".
Prosecutor Ramsay Cunningham mentioned: "Mrs Dewar noticed the accused pointing the handgun at her son.
"He was heard to say, 'I will shoot yous.'
"He then lowered the gun to his aspect, and on the identical time Derek Dewar Jnr moved in the direction of him, hit him, and eliminated the handgun from his grasp."
Mr Dewar Jnr took gun to his dad and mom' house close by, to get it away from the scene, and instantly phoned police.
O'Donnell continued to shout and swear, uttering threats to break property, whereas his accomplice of seven years, Ami Dewar, tried to restrain him.
Mr Cunningham mentioned: "This resulted in a battle between them, and O'Donnell pushed Ami to the bottom, pinned her by the neck, and shouted, 'Do not make me do that, Ami'."
She managed to get free, and Mr Dewar Snr then noticed O'Donnell with a plank of wooden, with which he "repeatedly struck" a Seat Ibiza automotive parked in a close-by avenue, and likewise struck a parked VW Caddy van.
Each automobiles, which belonged to a neighbour, had been scratched and broken, and the wing mirror of the van was knocked off.
Police arrived about 10.20 pm, by which era O'Donnell had walked off, and recovered the handgun, which firearms officers then made certain was protected.
Mr Cunningham mentioned the gun was "an air weapon sufficiently highly effective to represent a firearm".
O'Donnell returned about half an hour later and was arrested.
Miss Dewar sustained "a purple mark to the neck" on account of the incident, which occurred on April twenty first 2020.
Falkirk Sheriff Courtroom heard that within the run-up to the incident, O'Donnell had returned intoxicated to the house in Fairlie Drive, Camelon, which he then shared with Ami.
Mr Cunningham, the depute fiscal, mentioned he had referred to as Ami "a boot" and threatened to set on hearth a bike belonging to her brother, Derek Dewar jnr.
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She then heard a glass bottle smash and noticed a small hearth burning on the pavement about 5 yards from the place her brother had just lately parked his motorcycle.
O'Donnell, unemployed, of Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire, pleaded responsible to home assault to damage, possessing a firearm with intent to trigger somebody to consider that violence could be used in opposition to them, vandalism, and statutory breach of the peace.
Defence agent Gordon Addison mentioned his consumer had been socialising.
He mentioned: "It seems it was unacceptable for him to have returned house drunk in the course of the course of the pandemic, and that appears to have been the basis reason for the argument."
He mentioned O'Donnell had "grabbed a disused black air pistol" with no pellets, and no gasoline canister, which means it couldn't have been fired.
He added that O'Donnell's feedback had been "sort of mock bravado in drink".
He mentioned: "On occasion he drinks far an excessive amount of."
Jailing O'Donnell for 15 months, Sheriff Craig Harris mentioned he had subjected the Dewars to "a terrifying ordeal".