An elderly man caught abstracting electricity had previously been living by candlelight without heating and only cooking on a small camping stove.Leicester Crown Court was told the police initially went to Phillip James's home in Churchill Road, Mountsorrel, to seize a stun gun.Kate Plummer, prosecuting, said: "Officers explained they were looking for a particular item and he directed them to a tool box."They found a stun-gun that was designed to look like a knuckle-duster."James,...
