Former Leeds City Council worker Tyler Elliott was spotted drunk and bare chested with a knife tucked into his tracksuit bottoms, Leeds Crown Court heard.

A member of the public alerted police after seeing him staggering near the Hope Inn on York Road, East End Park Leeds.

Prosecutor Carmel Pearson said when police approached Pearson he brandished the seven-inch bladed knife at them.

Miss Pearson said Elliott, 20, of Thorn Walk, Gipton, told police a man had attacked him in the Hope Inn, adding: "I went home for the knife and I was going to stab him."

After he was sprayed with CS gas Elliot fell to the floor and dropped the knife.

Elliott later said he had only planned to threaten the man with the knife.

Olivia Checa-Dover, for Elliott, said: "He used to work as a binman for Leeds City Council and wishes to carry on that employment but he has been unable to find anything similar."

Elliott, who had admitted possessing an offensive weapon, was reprimanded by police in 2005 after he was convicted of possessing a ball bearing gun when he was 16.

Recorder Andrew Kershaw sentenced Elliott to 12 months in a Young Offender Institution suspended for two years.

Elliott must do 100 hours unpaid work and attend a 'Stop Binge Drinking' education programme.

Recorder Kershaw told him: "Once you introduce a knife into a public place anything could happen. Somebody could have tried to disarm you and caused a fatal injury."