A PORTHMADOG man who argued in the street with his father and fetched a kitchen knife to scare him has been jailed for 26 weeks by a judge.

Caernarfon Crown Court was told the dad went into a Porthmadog pub, but the landlady then saw 20-year-old Steven Connor outside, waving the knife and shouting, and police were called.

Connor, of Glaslyn Street, who claimed to have drunk eight pints of lager and felt anger towards Meirion Roberts, was recalled to jail following his arrest.

He admitted possessing a knife in New Street on 13 February and had a previous conviction for burglary and theft.

Recorder Jeremy Jenkins said: ”I have heard the sad background you have with your father. You have, to some extent, been badly let down by him.”

The judge said he accepted Connor didn’t intend to use the knife, but an eyewitness had been frightened by the defendant whose behaviour was “unpredictable.”

Defence counsel Elen Owen said Connor had a supportive family and stepfather.

“This was something committed in the heat of the moment against a background of provocation,” she said.

“It wasn’t ‘mindless aggression’.”