Tuesday 18 August 2009

Late Night Knifeman Chase


A late-night knifeman, high on a cocktail of booze and cocaine, had to be blasted with C.S. gas by police after chasing a stranger.

Jobless Ricky Donovan, 24, of 146 Beresford Road, Hornsey pleaded guilty at Blackfriars Crown Court to possessing an offensive weapon, namely a lock knife, in Camden High Street, Camden on May 3 and possessing  £80 worth of cocaine.

The court heard Donovan confronted another man at 2.20 am shouting: "I'm not a little boy," and pulled out the unopened knife.

Fearing a stabbing the victim ran to the nearby Underground Station and was chased by Donovan who confronted him again.

The pair scuffled and were broken up by police who used C.S. gas on the defendant to restrain him.

Donovan confessed to an all-day drinking binge and taking cocaine.

He was sentenced to nine months imprisonment, suspended for two years, placed on two years probation, including an alcohol treatment course, and ordered to obey a nightime curfew for six months.

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