AN armed man with a t-shirt wrapped around his face threatened Bushwackers door staff with a knife.

Martin Kolar of Aycliffe Road, Worcester was told he faces up to three years in prison for the 'category 1A offence' outside the popular nightclub in the city's Trinity Street.

Worcester News:

GUILTY: Martin Kolar at Worcester Magistrates Court

 

The 23-year-old admitted having a knife and unlawfully and intentionally threatening another person or persons unknown in such a way that there was an immediate risk of serious physical harm to that person when he appeared before city magistrates on Thursday.

The threats were made against door staff on July 3 last year, the defendant using a t-shirt to conceal his face. Magistrates declined jurisdiction for that case and Kolar will be sentenced at Worcester Crown Court for the knife offence, an assault occasioning actual bodily harm which he admitted on July 31 and a further assault which he admitted on November 4 last year.

Worcester News:

INCIDENT: The threats were made outside Bushwackers in Trinity Street

 

The ABH happened on July 9 last year and the other assault between July 8 and 11 last year.

Sumreen Afsar, prosecuting, said there had been an initial altercation between Kolar and the door staff at Bushwackers before the defendant returned to Trinity Street with the knife.

"He has brandished it to door staff outside Buswackers nightclub. This has been seen on CCTV" said Mrs Afsar.

She said it was 'a category 1A offence within the sentencing guidelines'.

Worcester News:

CASE: Worcester Magistrates Court

 

"The reason for that is it's an offence committed with a bladed article, a knife, and committed where there's a risk of serious disorder" she said.

The starting point within the guidelines is two years in prison with a range available to the sentencing judge of between one year six months and three years.

Richard Hull, defending, said: "I have to concede it's a category 1A offence, threatening door staff. They're not emergency workers, they are door staff, and they're being threatened with a knife."

Mr Hull described how Kolar 'holds a t-shirt over his face' to conceal his identity and that there were 'a number of aggravating features'.

He described the ABH as 'a similar matter in character' to the one which happened outside Bushwackers but explained that this happened instead outside a cinema.

The other common assault, he told the court, was connected to that ABH.

"He's plainly aware of the requirement not to get himself into any trouble of any sort in the intervening period" said Mr Hull.

Kolar's unconditional bail was enlarged for a hearing - date and time still to be fixed at Worcester Crown Court.