A REPEAT offender “with a general disregard for the law and for other people” waved a knife at a paramedic.

Kyron McFarlane brandished the blade outside the Regal in Cowley Road, East Oxford, before being found with cannabis and a knuckle-duster.

Police will next week apply for an Antisocial Behaviour Order (Asbo) against the 21-year-old, who officers say is responsible for a number of incidents around the Ozone complex at the Kassam Stadium.

At Oxford Crown Court on Monday, McFarlane was jailed for 10 months after earlier admitting possessing an offensive weapon, possessing a knife and possessing a Class B drug.

Judge Gordon Risius told him: “Shortly before Christmas (on December 16), there was a heated argument between you and another man in the street in Cowley Road.

“An ambulanceman intervened to stop it and you produced a knife. The ambulance man backed away in fear and radioed for police help.

“You have a bad record for someone of your age and I note in particular that these three offences were committed only a few months after your release from a young offenders’ institution and before the sentence for which you were sent there had expired.

“It follows that this is by no means your first appearance in the crown court.

“It seems to me you have a general disregard for the law and for other people.

“The message has got to go out loud and clear that people who go out armed with knives or knuckle-dusters, and particularly those armed with both these weapons, must lose their liberty.”

Cathy Olliver, prosecuting, applied to give McFarlane, of Emperor Gardens, Greater Leys, an Asbo with four requirements.

She requested the defendant be banned from carrying any knife or blade in public; be excluded from an area around the Kassam Stadium; be banned from spitting at anyone; and forbidden from using insulting, threatening or racist language at anyone.

Lucy Ffrench, defending, said she would oppose the application because the “publicity and stigma” of an Asbo could harm her client’s future employment prospects.

A decision is set to be taken on Monday.