A married father urinated in the street in front of young children then waved a knife at them.
Navarupan Logeswaran pulled the weapon out on the terrified youngsters and said "I will kill you" after they caught him relieving himself on a road in Elswick, in Newcastle.
A court heard the 36-year-old produced the Stanley knife and extended its blade in front of the kids during the incident one afternoon in February last year.
