A MAN who threatened his housemate with a carving knife while bare-chested and high on drink and drugs has been jailed for a year.

Kieran John Hutchingson, 21, of no fixed abode, admitted affray, possession of an offensive weapon and criminal damage.

Prosecuting, James Kellam said an argument had broken out between the defendant and the victim on December 12 at an address in Cherry Tree Avenue, Tidworth, at just before 10pm.

The court heard Hutchingson, bare-chested and brandishing a carving knife, had charged at his victim in a drunken rage.

Hutchingson, who is father to twins, then went into the garden, picked up a brick and shouted: “No one wants you here, I’m going to kill you,” before hurling bricks at the victim and smashing a window.

The victim fled and Hutchingson followed, shouting and screaming into the street, carrying a “quite substantial” kitchen knife.

When his mother arrived, he threw a bicycle at her car, shattering the windscreen.

Police managed to subdue him by aiming a stun gun at his chest.

Defending, Francisca da Costa said her client had taken a “cocktail of drugs” and had drunk five bottles of rosé wine with friends, which left him with no memory of the incident until his arrest.

However, she also admitted this was “not exactly a mitigating factor”.

Ms da Costa said her client only committed this sort of crime when he was drunk, and accepted the need to deal with his alcohol intake.

“He had no plan to commit the offence,” she said. “He arrived at the property, behaved in an unfortunate manner, then picked up the knife. He is very sorry.”

Sentencing Hutchingson to 12 months for affray and possessing a knife, Judge Barnett, sitting at Salisbury Crown Court on Monday, said: “You undoubtedly lost control of yourself.

“You had been drinking; you were effectively blind drunk, certainly blind to what you were doing.

“Society takes that sort of behaviour very seriously.

“All sorts of dreadful things can happen if people wave knives around.”

Hutchingson was also ordered to serve two concurrent two-month-long sentences for criminal damage.