A teenager who went to a young man’s home and threatened to kill him while armed with a large samurai-style knife was given a suspended detention sentence.
Salik Miah (18) saw red because the youth he ended up threatening had allegedly daubed graffiti outside his home, calling him a “p***y.”
He went to the victim’s address with a group of friends and encountered the youth’s father arriving home from work.
It did not deter Miah from brandishing the 30-cemtimetre knife - handed over by a friend - and continuing to threaten to “kill” and “mash up” the man’s son. When arrested, the defendant said he had been intending to attack the son with the blade. Ben Gow, prosecuting, said the knife incident happened in Leicester’s Roslyn Street, Highfields, at 4.30pm on October 19 last year.
Miah, who was 17 at the time, admitted causing an affray and possessing a bladed article. He was given a nine month detention sentence, suspended for two years, and will have to do 200 hours of unpaid work.
The court heard that Miah was recently given an eight week suspended sentence for possessing a knife in January this year – three months after he committed the affray in Roslyn Street.
Mr Gow said: “I’m not sure why he wasn’t charged with this offence earlier so that both matters could have been dealt with together. Neil Ross, mitigating, said: “It seems there was a trigger issue between him and the young man at the property. He has described the (alleged) graffiti, although it excuses not one jot what he did.
