Schoolboys were threatened by a drunken city centre knifeman after calling him a 'dirty old man' for urinating next to a bus-stop.
Navarupan Logeswaran was spotted by two young lads angrily shouting at a bus he had just missed before relieving himself on the streets of Newcastle in the middle of the afternoon. He then pulled out a Stanley knife on the children and said he would kill them.
Newcastle Crown Court heard it was around 2.40pm on February 28 last year that the offence happened on Westmorland Road. Katie Spence, prosecuting, said: "He appeared to miss the bus and was visibily annoyed, shouting 'f*** you' at the bus.