A MAN was sentenced to six months in prison for threatening someone in the street with a knife.

Aidan Sherlock, aged 22, of Starkie Road, Tonge Moor, had previously pleaded guilty to the offence.

He was sentenced at Bolton Crown Court yesterday.

The court heard how on May 13 this year Sherlock was involved in a confrontation in the street with a man named Joshua Tunnah.

The pair had been friends but had fallen out because of a disagreement over a woman.

Sherlock had a knife in his possession and he was described as ‘waving it around’ in the street.

Sherlock left the scene when it became apparent that police were on the way.

When passing the sentence, judge Timothy Clayson gave Sherlock credit for his early guilty plea.

James Preece, mitigating said that Sherlock was drunk when he produced the knife and that it is not behaviour that he is going to repeat.

Judge Clayson said that if Sherlock committed a crime with a knife again he would be looking at a sentence in years rather than months.