NORTH Wales police were over- zealous when they arrested a man shooting rabbits, a court heard yesterday. Armed police were called in and the force helicopter scrambled to track down Iraq veteran Peter David Jones. He was arrested in the car park of Tesco's supermarket in Mold by officers who seized his air rifle. Yesterday the 25-year-old of Bromfield Park, Mold, was fined £100 and ordered to pay £55 court costs after he admitted possessing a loaded weapon in public. Flintshire magistrates at Mold also ordered the BSA Hornet .77 calibre air rifle should be destroyed. Jones admitted owning the air rifle. He was arrested and told police he had been out shooting rabbits. Gary Harvey, defending, said Jones had served in the army for eight years, including Iraq. That evening he was bored and started shooting near the law courts at rabbits, a woman saw him firing the rifle and he was reported "I would say it was a somewhat over-zealous approach by the police." | 
