A man has been arrested for allegedly waving a crossbow around in Battersea and shouting insults at passersby.

Police were called by members of the public to reports of a man standing on a balcony waving what appeared to be a rifle and shouting “wankers”.

Firearms officers attended the incident at 3.30pm, yesterday, and arrested him for affray. It turned out the instrument was not a rifle, but in fact a crossbow.