An axeman jailed for threatening police and smashing up to thirty car windows during a drink and drug-fuelled rampage in Abingdon has had his sentence cut.

Christopher McKeown, 24, of Saxton Road, Abingdon, was jailed for two-and-a-half years last November after admitting affray.

London's Criminal Appeal Court rejected a claim that McKeown should have been considered for a drug treatment and testing order instead of prison, but cut his sentence to two years.

McKeown had been seen by residents in Saxton Road attacking cars with the axe on October 20. He also charged at a police car as an officer was getting out and struck the vehicle four to five times with the axe. He then threatened to attack the officer with the axe if he did not go away.

Mr Justice Douglas Brown said the maximum penalty for affray was three years, and that McKeown was not given enough discount for his early guilty plea. He also noted the defendant's remorse.

He accepted that no injury was caused but added: "From the facts we have recited, it was only a matter of good luck that no officer was injured, indeed seriously injured."