A knife-wielding drunk told a motorist who refused to shut off his engine: “Come outside, I want to kill you."
The incident happened in Radstone Walk, North Evington, where Syed Ali lives and had been binge drinking during a day off work.
On the evening of Monday, August 27, he went outdoors and knocked on the window of a car parked outside his house.
The driver, Ali’s neighbour, wound down the window and told Ali he was just waiting for five minutes and refused to turn his engine off. Ali (38), who was drunk on vodka, went back into his house, but returned moments later with a long kitchen knife.
Prosecutor Fiona Brooks told Leicester Magistrates’ Court: “The defendant re-appeared at the car window, knocked again, and the complainant noticed his right hand was behind his back.
“When he pulled his hand around, he was holding a knife with a 40cm blade, which was jagged. The complainant said it was a big knife. The defendant said, ‘Come outside, I want to kill you’.
“He knocked a few times on the door.”
Ms Brooks said the neighbour used his mobile phone to take photos of Ali and called 999.
She said: “He felt frightened [that] someone would make those threats.
“The defendant kept coming in and out of the house for 10 minutes, and a woman turned up and tried to get him back in the house.
“Another man came out of the house and apologised and asked the complainant not to call the police."
The court heard that the defendant was later arrested and interviewed by officers, explaining he “very drunk and because of that his recollections were vague”.
