Knife thug Blake Sonny Johnson stabbed an innocent man for no reason.
And hours later, he burst into a terrified family’s home in Batley to seek refuge in the loft as police hunted him.
Now he is starting a three-year jail sentence after what a judge described as “a mindless random act of violence.”
Leeds Crown Court heard the victim Christopher Kitchen was in Gledhill Terrace, Dewsbury when he remarked “alright” to two men who were passing.
Andrew Horton prosecuting said one of the men punched him and the second, Johnson stabbed him in the buttock.
The next day January 26, after police identified Johnson from CCTV they went to a bail hostel in Batley where he was staying on licence but he ran off when he realised he was wanted. Shirtless and shoeless he knocked on the door of a house in Healey Lane and when the householder opened it burst in asking for scissors and a knife.
He also demanded something to wear and grabbed a T shirt before he went upstairs and hid in the loft.
Police were looking for him and came to the house. At first the occupant was too scared to say anything but indicated upstairs and when the police went up Johnson emerged from the loft having removed the tag.
Robin Frieze representing Johnson said in panic he fled from the bail hostel when he realised the police were after him and trying to hide in the house involved must have been frightening for the complainant.
Johnson, 25, previously of Staincliffe Road, Dewsbury admitted unlawful wounding, having an offensive weapon, affray and damage.
Jailing him for a total of three years, the Recorder of Leeds Judge Peter Collier QC said he had significant record which had begun with unlawful wounding when he was only 14.
It was his fifth conviction for having a bladed article or knife, on a man he did not know who had just acknowledged him in the street in a “mindless random act of violence”.
