‘Oooh, what’s that axe doing in my car’

A Ukrainain man caught with an axe in his car said he had not noticed it before, a court heard. Oleksandr Shulezhko, 43, was caught speeding around Mayfair in his silver BMW with a male passenger in November 2019. Police stopped the car and questioned the two men and ‘after their stories did not add up’ conducted a search of the car, it is said. Jennifer Gatland, prosecuting, told Westminster Magistrates’ Court: ‘They believed the passenger had recently been using…