A man who drunkenly brandished a knife in the street has been brought back to court after "pathetic" failures with his unpaid work order.

Joshua Rider, 21, was caught in February after waving a knife around while drunk, at one point shouting at a child and causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage to another man’s BMW.

He avoided a jail sentence at the time but was brought back to Bolton Crown Court after failing to keep to the conditions set out by the community order he was given.

The Honorary Recorder for Bolton Judge Martin Walsh said: “It’s utterly pathetic, his compliance with this order has been utterly abysmal.

“He’s doing just about everything possible to activate the suspended sentence.”

He added: “The performance here has been pitiful.”

Rider was seen coming out of a post office drunk on June 21, 2021 and later that day was seen going into a house on Lever Edge Lane shouting "get my Tyler" despite being told no one of that name lived there.

A BMW driver on Rupert Street then saw him shout "stop running, come here" at a child who happened to be passing.

The driver managed to drive over Rider’s knife, preventing him from getting at, which prompted Rider to hit and kick the car, causing £800 worth of damage.

He was then arrested after a short police chase.

After admitting to possession of a knife, Rider, of Trafford Street, Farnworth, had been given a 16-month sentence, suspended for a year and was ordered to complete a 12 month alcohol treatment programme.

He was also ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and 35 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

But Gwen Henshaw, prosecuting, told the court how since then he had failed to turn up to an unpaid work appointment on July 31, had arrived 35 minutes late on September 11 and was sent home and despite receiving a final warning on September 13 had failed to provide a reasonable explanation as to why.

He had also left his unpaid work after complaining of feeling "ill" on September 4 and 14.

Rider had also only completed four of his 35 rehabilitation activity requirement days in that time and failed to turn up for a mental health referral that he himself had requested.

Judge Walsh said: “Probation services agreed to provide a referral and what does he do?

“He does bother turning up!”

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Anthony Steel, defending, argued that Rider had come to recognise "his own internal problem" and that the experience had been a "wake up call for him".

He also claimed that the defendant’s problems with alcohol were making things more difficult for him.

Judge Walsh decided that Rider’s unpaid work order was ‘unworkable’ and revoked it but opted to extend his community order to two years and his alcohol treatment programme to 18 months.

He also added five more rehabilitation activity requirement days for Rider to complete and told probation services to ensure that he was treated with no more ‘leniency’ from this point on.

Rider’s case will be reviewed again on November 10.