It was unlikely the helicopter would have saved the man who had suffered a cardiac arrest, the ambulance service said.
Ah, so that makes it OK. Good to know.
Magistrate Felicity Dowell told them: ..........
'I am sure that you did not do it to make the helicopter crash but it would have had that effect.
'You are very lucky it wasn’t very serious. One of you plays rugby - imagine if you were lying on the field with a broken leg waiting for the air ambulance and someone did the same thing.'
I would ask Magistrate Felicity Dowell how she would have reacted had the person concerned been one of her family members.
Banning these things from sale is not the answer, those who want them will always be able to obtain them and there must be thousands around anyway - I have at least 6 in a drawer at home which I used as pointers during presentations. The solution is exercising and publicising severe sentences on people like these thugs.