Shoppers were left shocked when a fight broke out in the Metrocentre over a knifeman's girlfriend being insulted.
Harry Hamblett had gone to the busy shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon armed with a hunting knife when trouble flared. A court heard three men ended up fighting in front of shocked families just before 3pm on May 29 last year.
When police turned up, Hamblett tried to flee but was apprehended and found to be carrying the knife, which had an eight inch blade. Although he didn't use it in the fight, Judge Tim Gittins, at Newcastle Crown Court, told him: "It doesn't matter who started it, you seem to have thought it was an appropriate chivalrous response to an insult aimed at your girlfriend that you should challenge those responsible.
