A dog walker waved a gun and a pair of scissors at pub staff when they refused to give her water for her pet.

Nicola Holland walked into the Fleur De Lis in Gillingham with her pooch but became angry when bar workers would not give her a bowl of water.

She then got a Airsoft handgun out her pocket and waved it about before tapping the bar with the weapon.

The 54-year-old, who works as a transport administrator, then got a pair of scissors out another pocket and brandished them before leaving the pub with her pet.

The matter was reported to police and Holland, of Beacon Road, Chatham, was arrested at her home after the incident on December 5 last year.

She admitted having an imitation firearm and a pointed article in public when she appeared before magistrates in Medway on July 12.

Kyle Rogers, prosecuting, said: “It was December 5 last year at about 10.45pm when she went into the pub with her dog and asked for some water for it.

“She was angered she was not given the water and got an imitation firearm, an Airsoft handgun, and started waving it around and tapped it on the bar.

“She also had a pair of scissors and did the same with them and then left the pub. There were no threats really made. She was arrested at her home.”

The court heard Holland, a mother-of-two, had left the scissors in her pocket after using them in the garden earlier that day.

Magistrates were told she had stumbled across the gun on her walk and picked it up.

The bench were also told Holland had turned to cocaine and begun drinking more to block out her troubles after the loss of her job in lockdown.

She had been drinking on the night of the incident, but, since then, she had sought help.

Holland had turned her life around, the court heard, and was clean and had been sober since January this year.

Magistrates were told she was remorseful and had been upset at the bar because she had always taken her dog in with her to have a few drinks, but had been told that day the pub had a dog of its own and as a result she would no longer be able to take her’s in.

The bench jailed Holland for 120 days, but suspended the term for 12 months.

She was also ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and complete 10 rehabilitation sessions with probation.

Holland was also fined £280, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £154 and £85 costs.

Magistrates ordered the scissors and gun be destroyed.