A MAN who attacked his father while brandishing a meat cleaver following a drunken argument has been locked up.

Patrick Brady threatened his father when a fight between the pair spilled out into the streets when they clashed more than two years ago.

Teesside Crown Court heard how the pair had been drinking a crate of lager when the violence erupted.

The 34-year-old has a history of carrying and brandishing weapons and was jailed for eight months in 2018 after threatening a neighbour with a cut-throat razor during another drunken row and for brandishing a samurai sword.

The court heard how it was unclear exactly what happened or how the incident started due to the amount of alcohol both men had drunk.

However, Brady’s father was left with a fractured cheekbone, fractured nose and cuts to his chest and ear.

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Aisha Wadoodi, prosecuting, said the victim turned up at his daughter’s house covered in blood and Brady sent her a Facebook message saying - ‘he was lucky he didn’t kill him’.

“He kept repeating to them that his son had tried to kill him and he told police that he had been punched by his son but a lot of the incident was blurred,” she said.

“The defendant messaged his sister via Facebook saying ‘If I see him again, I will kill him. I won’t let him off next time. He’s lucky I never killed him’.”

Self Defence Claim

The defendant told police he had attacked in self-defence when his father attacked him with a screwdriver.

Brady, of Sheriff Street, Hartlepool, pleaded guilty to affray and possession of a bladed article following the violent disturbance in April 2020.

Dan Cordey, in mitigation, urged the judge to pass a suspended sentence as his client had been out of trouble in the two years since the incident and had not breached the bail conditions of not contacting his father.

He added: “He had it with him on the spur of the moment for a very short period of time.”

Judge Jonathan Carroll jailed Brady for a total of 15 months for both offences.

“You were both drinking, drinking to excess, and exactly what happened inside the house and outside the house, isn’t clear. It isn’t clear in large parts because of the consumption of alcohol by the two of you,” he said.

He added: “You took your meat cleaver out in the middle of a heated dispute. It may well have not been used but that is by happenchance. The fact is in your drunken state armed with a bladed article in the street anything could have happened.”

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