A KNIFEMAN who brought terror to the doors of a Brierfield pub on New Year's Eve has been locked up for more than two and a half years.

Enraged and drunken Brian Butler, 21, had ‘swaggered’ down the road, armed with a large weapon in each hand and was “raring to go’.

He chased people around the streets, repeatedly slashed out and had ‘not cared two hoots who saw him’.

Revellers outside The Feathers should have been enjoying an evening of celebrations, but instead they were scared witless in the trouble, captured on CCTV, Burnley Crown Court heard.

Butler, who believed his mother had been attacked, had been pulled away but went back for more.

The defendant, said to have had a drug addiction costing him almost £17,000 a year, was on bail at the time, after beating up his former girlfriend and was subject of a suspended prison term.

Butler, from Chapelhouse Road, Nelson, had admitted assault causing actual bodily harm, affray and two counts of having a blade.

He was jailed for a total two years and 238 days.

Tim Storrie, for Butler, said by the age of 13, his client was living the life an adult should live.

His upbringing was largely feral, he was introduced to drugs and was spending £300 a week, on cocaine, ecstasy and later meph-edrone.

The barrister said: “He acknowledges what he has done and offers no excuses.”