A man returned to a pub, after he was removed by security, with a foot-long machete which he swung at a bouncer and at a locked gate. Reece Swain was said to be "under the affect of something" as he slurred his words outside The Nags Head, Station Street, Kirkby-in-Ashfield.
Swain had been ejected by staff but returned in a vehicle - which arrived with a "screeching jolt", said Lauren Fisher, prosecuting. Miss Fisher told a judge at Nottingham Crown Court, where Swain was sentenced on Wednesday (February 1), the defendant got out of the car with what later transpired to be a machete.
Swain, 31, of Kingsway, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, ran towards the smoking area, which was locked, and used the machete on the gate. He had the blade raised as he swung at the security guard, who bravely stopped him making contact with him on September 3 last year.
