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| Gun threat Rolls-Royce driver found guilty A Rolls-Royce driver is facing jail after a bad taste joke backfired on him. An Old Bailey jury has convicted businessman Oliver Larholt of threatening a cabbie with a pistol in London's Mayfair. The court had heard Larholt pulled his grandfather's old service flare gun out of a glove compartment as part of a prank with friends. Remanding him on bail until February 19 for reports, Judge David Stokes warned him: "You have been found guilty of a serious offence. A custodial sentence is highly likely." Larholt, 30, of Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, north London, had denied the charge but had admitted having the pistol without a firearm's certificate in March, last year. Mr Pengelly told the jury that in Grosvenor Square, just outside the American Embassy, a Rolls-Royce had forced him to swerve out of the way and he mounted the kerb as they approached a traffic island. As he drove on, he found himself side by side with the Rolls at a set of traffic lights. Mr Pengelly said he made a sign to the other driver to imply he had been drinking. The driver was laughing with his passengers. But as they continued their journey, they found themselves again at traffic lights near Oxford Street. Mr Pengelly said: "The driver reached to the compartment and pulled out a yellow cloth. He unwrapped it and there was a gun. He held it pointing towards the front of his windscreen. He said something to the people in the back and he looked at me with a smile." 28th January 2002 |
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