A WOMAN who said her ex-boyfriend threatened her with a sawn-off shotgun has denied making up the story to get him sent him to jail.

James Bisson, of Sage Walk, Greater Leys, Oxford, is on trial at Oxford Crown Court accused of possessing a prohibited firearm and possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence.

Jazmin Grey-Turner, the 23-year-old’s ex-girlfriend, said Bisson pulled the weapon from a rucksack at her friend Jodie Marshall’s home in Dunnock Way, Blackbird Leys, on January 29.

Yesterday, Jonathan Coode, defending Bisson, admitted his client was “very upset” and a confrontation took place.

But while cross-examining Miss Grey-Turner, he said: “The one thing he didn’t have with him, and you have made up, and you have made this up in cahoots with your friend Jodie and your father, is that he had a rucksack with a shotgun in it.”

As Miss Grey-Turner denied Mr Coode’s suggestions, members of her family laughed in the public gallery and were ejected by Judge Michael Gledhill.

Mr Coode added: “I suggest you were told more or less what a sawn-off shotgun looked like. And I suggest all that happened because your father, who has just left court, wanted to help you to get James Bisson out of your life for a long stretch.”

Miss Grey-Turner, 20, replied: “No, not at all.”

Under re-examination from prosecutor Nicholas Doherty, she said she did not want to get the police involved and only did so after Miss Marshall made a statement.

The trial continues.