A YORK man who took an 11cm blade with him to a nightclub has been jailed for a month.

James Christopher Glenton, 20, of Rowntree Avenue, Clifton, York, admitted drunk and disorderly behaviour and carrying an offensive weapon.

Paula Jack, prosecuting, said that a police officer found Glenton curled up on a grass verge at Stirling Road, Clifton Moor, at 2am, on Saturday, March 29. When the officer approached him, he noticed Glenton smelt strongly of alcohol and urine, she said. She said the officer tried to talk to him, but he responded with insults and obscenities, calling the officer a pig.

"His speech was incoherent and he was unable to stand or walk unaided." Glenton was arrested and taken to Fulford Police Station. He was searched and a butterfly knife with an 11cm blade was found in his trouser pocket.

Miss Jack said: "He told police, in his own words, he had had a skinful and had been to Ikon and Diva nightclub."

She said he told them he normally carried a knife and he collected them and liked to have them with him.

"He said he would have used it in self-defence if he had needed to."

John Howard, mitigating, said Glenton had not flashed his knife around and the weapon had stayed in his back pocket. He said it was likely Glenton would have been incapable of using it on that night. Glenton was sentenced to a month in prison. A destruction order was made for the knife.

Updated: 08:51 Friday, June 20, 2003