Man with 'violent streak' waved knives outside Coventry pub after being attacked on birthday

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Jamie Coleman believed those who jumped him were inside the Wheatsheaf pub



After being attacked in the street on his birthday, a Coventry man armed himself with two knives and brandished them outside a pub as he challenged people to fight him.

Jamie Coleman believed the people who had attacked him were drinking in the Wheatsheaf pub and stood in the car park inviting people to come outside.

Coleman - who a judge said had a "violent streak" - was sentenced to 12 months in prison suspended for 18 months and ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work after pleaded guilty to possessing bladed articles.

Sentencing Coleman, Recorder Butterworth said he found it "unlikely" he had found the knives in a skip rather than having gone home to fetch them.

“What you did then was quite deliberately go to a public house and with those knives in your hand, you waved them and tried to encourage people there to come out and fight you," said the judge.

“That was persistent and determined, although no-one took you up on your offer and the police arrived and you were disarmed and arrested.

“You have previous convictions which show you have a violent streak, and that is what seems to have emerged on the evening in question.

“I accept you had been attacked and that that was what was behind your rage and your behaviour.”