A man who got out a machete in a Bristol McDonald's has been jailed.
Homeless Carl Ford pleaded guilty to theft and possessing an offensive weapon at Bristol Crown Court yesterday (June 25).
Kenneth Bell, prosecuting, said Ford asked to sleep at the McDonald's in Avonmead in September last year.
When he was asked to leave he told staff: "You don't know who I am, you don't know who I work for".
He then placed a machete and metal bar on a table and threw the bar at staff.
Ford told police he had wanted to stay somewhere warm and eat something, and had simply frightened the staff.
Ford, 34, was also sentenced for stealing 31 jars of marmite in one go from Aldi in Church Road, Redfield, in November last year.
Sheila Carrick, defending, told the judge: "He was homeless at the time.
"He had the machete because he was homeless.
"He did throw the iron bar in McDonald's; it was people he had a relationship with, of sorts."
Probation officer Jane Middleton said Ford had planned to sell the marmite to buy the drug Spice.
Ford told the judge he aspired to join the army and train as a mechanic.
Judge Julian Lambert jailed him for eight months.
He told Ford he recognized he had been suffering from mental health issues.
