Loner shone laser pen at cop helicopter because the noise drowned out his audio book

A father-of-two shone a laser pen at police helicopter pilot because the noise of the aircraft interrupted him listening to an audio-book, a court heard. Stephen Reid, 55, was distracted by the chopper as it passed over his home in Kentish Town, northwest London, on 18 July last year. Reid became incensed when he heard the helicopter ‘hovering’ over his property and drowning out the novel he was listening to that evening. He dazzled the pilot with a powerful blue…