An angry neighbour who threatened to shoot a woman living opposite after she asked him to move his car from outside her home has been spared jail.
Alan Muscroft, 43, wielded a decommissioned double-barrel shotgun when a married couple who lived opposite came over and confronted him about the parking space in Low Road, Scrooby.
The husband tried to ease tensions by moving his wife away from Muscroft's front door, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Wednesday.
But the gunman retreated into his house only to emerge moments later with an imitation firearm during the altercation on 1 November 2019.
When Muscroft pointed the weapon at the woman she grabbed its barrel in a bid to wrestle it from his grip, Nottinghamshire Live reports.
She suffered a head injury in the ensuing struggle which later needed treatment at Bassetlaw Hospital in nearby Worksop.
The clash came after several lesser disputes about the coveted space, with the couple repeatedly having to ask Muscroft in an "amicable" way to move, the court heard.
But when they returned from visiting friends to find he had once again blocked their driveway, they confronted him.
Prosecutor Jon Fountain said: "The defendant came from the door wielding that shotgun and pointed it towards the direction of the woman who was on the road some yards away".
Ed Moss, defending, said CCTV, which was played in court, showed Muscroft was not the sole aggressor.
He said the woman has been dragged away on two other occasions by her husband but conceded Muscroft had behaved in "foolish and tempestuous" way.
Judge Jeremy Lea told Muscroft he did not initiate the confrontation at his front door late at night and it had obviously been ongoing for some time.
But the judge added that "you eventually lost it and produced that weapon, presumably with intent to cause the complainant to go rather rapidly away".
Muscroft, now of Bircotes, Doncaster, admitted possessing an imitation firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.
He was sentenced to a ten-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months and ordered to complete 20 days rehabilitation and a "thinking skills" programme.
A restraining order was imposed to ban him from contacting the victim.
