Steven Jarvis was seen brandishing the weapon towards vehicles and also headbutted a window at the Clifton Arms pub on Preston New Road, Marton.

He then tried to headbutt a police officer telling him “I’m going to kill you and all your family”.
Preston Crown Court was told Jarvis had consumed a “vast” amount of alcohol at the time and when drunk the 23-year-old could be “away with the fairies”.

Jarvis, of Bowness Avenue, Marton, was jailed for 12 months after he pleaded guilty to having an offensive weapon.

The offence took place in July last year, while he was on a suspended sentence for assaulting a duty manager at Tesco, when he lunged at the victim’s neck.

Amanda Johnson, prosecuting, said a member of the pub’s bar staff heard the defendant and another man arguing outside the premises.

Jarvis, a regular, was heard to say “I want my knife back”, but the other person was refusing, while hiding the 50cm long machete behind his back.

Brandished

The weapon was passed onto the employee who took it away. At some point, Jarvis managed to retrieve it and placed it down his trousers.

A couple sat in a car at adjacent traffic lights saw him about 20 to 30 feet away, raising the machete.

They said he appeared to wave it at a parked car before putting it in his trousers.

He then brandished the machete at a coach in a traffic queue.

The man Jarvis had been arguing with managed to take the weapon from him.

The defendant cut his forearm in trying to grab hold of it.

Miss Johnson told the court Jarvis went on to punch a decorative banner outside the pub, kicked a wall and damaged a light fixture, while demanding the return of the weapon.

“A family walked out of the pub in terror during this,” she told the court.

“The defendant was headbutting a pub window, through which customers could see him. Two officers detained him.

“He tried to headbutt one officer and was taken to the floor.

“He continued to threaten the officers with violence, including the use of weapons.

“He was intoxicated. He said ‘I’m going to kill you and all your family’.”

Chris Hudson, defending, said Jarvis had lost his way through using drink and drugs.

He said: “He is not a habitually violent man. When he is sober he is very personable.

“It is difficult to reconcile the defendant you speak to with a machete brandishing or knife brandishing drunken young man.

“He is away with the fairies when he is in drinking and drugs.”

Sending Jarvis to prison, judge Mr Justice Irwin said: “What you did with that machete, having taken a vast amount of drink, was very dangerous.

“You could be standing there facing a murder charge. If you had hit somebody with that weapon you might easily have been facing a murder charge.

“Drink has ruined your life and is making you a danger.”