The 49-year-old mother, a laundry worker, had denied failing to send her daughter to school without reasonable excuse.

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Recent legislation - which is governed across the UK by the Home Office - made it an offence to possess an airgun in a public place without reasonable excuse such as vermin control near farms.

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One of the byelaws prohibits "people climbing on any wall, fence, tree, barrier, railing or structure without a reasonable excuse".

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