WATER pistol prankster Gary Parker has to pay £300 in fines and court costs after being found guilty of endangering a motor vehicle by interfering with it.

The 27-year-old, of Stanhope, County Durham, was charged after he squirted passing policeman Pc Frank Hewison while he was on patrol.

Parker had been in a water fight with friends at his parents pub, the Bonny Moor Hen, to celebrate his mother's birthday.