A man who danced while wielding a six-inch blade in Twerton has this week been jailed by Bath magistrates.
Daniel Owen, 23, appeared in court in custody on Monday 3rd November to admit that he was in possession of a sharply-pointed knife in Newton Road in the early hours of Saturday 1st November.
CCTV captured eight minutes’ footage of Owen with the knife. The court heard that police “red dotted” him with a Taser and he discarded the weapon.
Owen indicated that he had consumed two pints of beer and taken half a gram of cocaine.
At his court appearance, Owen also admitted being in breach of a 12-month community order imposed in July by magistrates in Oxford for a count of affray that happened in June.
He had been ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid work, abstain from drinking alcohol for 90 days (for which he was monitored) and complete a series of rehabilitation activity days.
The court heard that Owen had consumed alcohol in breach of his order and missed probation appointments.
A probation officer told Bath magistrates on Monday that there was concern that his risk could not be managed in the community.
Duty solicitor Sam Stevens said Owen, of Marriott Close in Oxford, had sought assistance for his mental health about five or six weeks ago and had suffered a “psychotic episode” in Twerton.
Magistrates revoked the community order and jailed Owen, who works as a scaffolder, for 17 weeks for wilfully and persistently failing to comply with the community order.
They also jailed him for 17 weeks for the knife offence. The orders will run consecutively.
Owen was also ordered to pay £85 Crown Prosecution Service costs, £85 Probation Service costs and a surcharge of £154. A deprivation order was made for the knife.
