A TEENAGER was seen carrying two knives in a Haslingden street in the early hours, a court heard.
Drunken Edward Riley, 19, who had been thrown out of or refused entry to a nightclub, had a ‘fearsome looking’ weapon in each hand when a CCTV operator spotted him on Charles Lane and alerted police last November.
He then came out with a stream of racist abuse about others but when he was ordered to the ground complied and dropped the knives, Burnley Crown Court was told.
The defendant, of Meadows Avenue, Haslingden, had earlier admitted racially aggravated harassment and two counts of possessing a blade and had been committed for sentence by magistrates.
Riley was given six months in detention, suspended for two years, with 80 hours unpaid work.
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