A drunken teen made a stab threat after being racially abused in an Oxford nightclub – then pulled out a tiny blade as he argued with the bouncers who’d thrown him out.

Masih, 19, could be seen on CCTV footage holding the ‘survival bracelet’ behind his back outside the Thirst club in Park End Street in the early hours of March 18.

He dropped the bracelet-blade, which he said he had bought earlier that day and taken with him on his night out.

Defending, Gareth James asked the judge to bear in mind that the blade was too small to cause a serious stab wound, only a ‘slashing injury’.

Judge Michael Gledhill KC told the advocate: “Not much consolation when your carotid artery is being slashed.”

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Noting the defendant had no previous convictions and had pleaded guilty to possessing the blade at the first opportunity, the judge suspended the 10 month prison sentence for two years.

But he warned Masih: “Mark my words: if you do this again, you’re going to prison.

“You know that far, far too many people, many, many young people, carry knives.

“They say that they only take them to defend themselves but that’s what happens, what happened on this night, when somebody is in possession of a knife and gets into an argument, out it comes and somebody gets injured or killed.”

The judge said knifeman Masih was within seconds or minutes of being involved in ‘serious disorder’.

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Masih, of Cholsey Close, Oxford, pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court to possession of a bladed article in a public place, having initially been charged with a more serious offence of making threats with a knife. He had no previous convictions.

The court heard that, in his police interview, Masih told officers he was racially abused in the nightclub toilets and in the argument that ensued he made a threat to ‘stab you’.

“That threat was overheard by security, which is why he was ejected from the venue,” prosecutor Alice Aubrey-Fletcher said.

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In mitigation, the teenage defendant was said to suffer from diabetes, which may have been affected by the amount he had to drink on the night of the offence. He had lost his job after telling them about the case.

He had effectively been banned from most licensed premises in Oxford city centre through the Pubwatch partnership, his brief told the court.

Sentencing, Judge Gledhill said: “Short as it might be, [this knife] is obviously extremely dangerous because it only needs one slash by you in your drunken state to cause somebody’s life to be endangered if not to kill them.”

He ordered that Masih complete 150 hours of unpaid work and pay £425 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.