Man who ‘ran amok’ with knife given suspended jail sentence
DEFENDANT ARMED WITH METAL POLE
A CONVICTED robber has escaped jail despite ‘running amok’ with a large knife during a running battle through a town centre.
Tyler Orme was captured on CCTV armed with a stick and later a knife as a dozen young men and women engaged in a confrontation in Ashton-Under-Lyne’s market district in broad daylight.
But the dad from Hyde, who has previous convictions for knifepoint robbery and assault, was handed a suspended prison sentence by a judge who accepted there was a ‘realistic prospect of rehabilitation’ in his case.
CCTV captured two groups armed with sticks involved in a running battle through the market area of Ashton-under-Lyne town centre at 6pm on June 30 last year.
The footage showed Tyler Orme, 23, involved in a ‘confrontation’ with a rival group, Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
About a dozen young adults,
Tyler Orme, from Hyde some of them women, were involved, prosecutor Justin Hayhoe said.
One appeared to be armed with a broom-handle while others had sticks and even what appeared to be a metal pole, he said.
The footage, shown to the court, showed another of those involved, removing his jacket and a heavy chain around in his neck as he appeared to prepare for a fight with Orme, who is seen backing away pursued by the rival faction.
A second piece of CCTV footage captures Orme armed with what appears to be a metal pole as the confrontation continues five minutes later. Someone is seen to hand
Orme a knife and the defendant then starts waving the blade at the other group.
Ian Ridgeway, defending, said the footage showed his client being chased and that he only had the knife ‘for a short period of time’.
Orme, of Pudding Lane in Hyde, was handed a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years after he had earlier pleaded guilty to affray, possessing an offensive weapon and possessing a knife.
He was also placed on an electronically monitored curfew which requires him to be at home between 8pm and 6am for the next six months.