A drunk man "threatened to chop people up" with an axe during a terrifying confrontation at a house, a court was told.
Michael Kirkman, 26, warned a man at the scene: "If you go into that building, this axe is going round your face."
Armed police were called to the scene, Grimsby Crown Court heard, and prosecutors said he could have easily "taken their head off" if he'd hit someone with the axe.
