Adam Ant pleads guilty over 'firearm'

Eighties pop star Adam Ant pleaded guilty today to affray at a north London pub after an incident in which he brandished an imitation firearm.

An earlier hearing at the Old Bailey heard how the singer, who appeared under his real name Stuart Goddard, walked into the Prince of Wales in Kentish Town wearing a cowboy hat and combat trousers.

Humiliated by the laughter of regulars who whistled the theme from The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, he left and returned to throw a car alternator through the pub window, injuring a member of pub staff, and waved a fake gun in the street.

The court has heard that Goddard, whose records sold 16 million, was suffering from an acute mental illness and was in a "hypomanic state" when the incident took place last January.

Three psychiatrists agreed he was mentally ill at the time. Goddard today pleaded guilty to affray after the Crown agreed to offer no evidence on charges of causing actual bodily harm, possessing an imitation firearm and criminal damage.

The case was adjourned until 2 October for presentence and psychiatric reports to be prepared.

The 47-year-old, greyhaired and balding, spoke only once during the hearing to plead guilty and then hurried from the court.