A MASTER technician who pulled out a BB gun and held it two feet from a man’s face in a terrifying stand-off in a residential street has narrowly avoided jail.

Gino Lisi had gone to his girlfriend Amy Greenway’s house in Abingdon to help her collect her things and move out on Monday, July 20, this year, a court heard.

Prosecuting, Alexandra Bull told Oxford Crown Court that Miss Greenway had been told to move out the house in Saxton Road, by her mother Jenny. She added: “Mr Lisi was not happy about this.”

The court heard on Tuesday that a row broke out between Jenny Greenway and her daughter before Lisi and his girlfriend left with some of her belongings.

However, Ms Bull said that Lisi then got involved in an argument with Robert Taduesiak, who was renting a room at the house with his wife.

She told the court that 20-year-old Lisi reached into the boot of his car and pulled out what appeared to be a revolver “gangsta-style”. The gun was later found to be a BB airgun.

Ms Bull added: “Mr Taduesiak said he was in fear that Mr Lisi was going to shoot him, but was more concerned about his wife.”

Lisi, who was a competitive clay pigeon shooter, held the gun two feet from Mr Taduesiak, and then turned it on his girlfriend’s mother.

Ms Bull said: “Miss [Jenny] Greenway was scared. She thought she and Mr Taduesiak were going to be shot.

“She said it was the scariest thing that has ever happened to her.”

Lisi, of Phoenix House, Hatford, near Faringdon, admitted one count of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear or violence.

Peter Dahlsen, defending, said Lisi had shown remorse for the “moment of rashness” and stressed a jail term would jeopardise his promising career as a master technician for Jaguar.

He added: “He acted particularly naively and foolishly at the time.

“This is a defendant who is a bright, intelligent, hardworking young man who has clearly made a wrong choice at the spur of the moment, in the heat of the moment.”

Judge Zoe Smith said: “It must have been terrifying for those who were there in the street seeing you with that gun in your hand having lost your temper.”

But despite telling Lisi that the court had to take all crimes involving firearms very seriously, Judge Smith said she could suspend his six-month jail term for two years.

She added: “The gravity of gun crime cannot be exaggerated.

“I am also aware that you have good employment and good prospects and you are still just 20 years of age.”

Judge Smith ordered him to carry out 120 hours unpaid work and pay £500 costs.