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Nelson drug user’s knife threat
11:40am Friday 18th July 2008
A CANNABIS addict threatened his frightened elderly lodger with a knife when they fell out over drugs cash, a court was told.
Burnley magistrates heard how ‘raging’Mark Anthony Zoth, 21, got angry with victim Peter Cotterill because he would not give him any money to buy cannabis.
He pulled a nine-inch carving knife on Mr Cotterill and threatened to kill him.
He then set about smashing up Mr Cotterill's belongings and when police arrived they found the defendant shouting from an upstairs window.
Mr Cotterill, 61,who was staying with Zoth after his house burned down, ended up with his reading glasses smashed and other items broken.
Zoth, of Percy Street, Nelson, admitted damage on June 24 and failing to surrender.
He was given 18 hours at an attendance centre and must pay £57 compensation and £50 costs.
Geoff Ireland, defending, said Zoth acknowledged he had something of a problem with cannabis and sometimes when he had none, he lost his temper.
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