A REVELLER caught clutching a piece of glass after being thrown out of a Worcester nightclub told police he had kept it to "slice" a man who had just punched him.

Clubber Joseph Chare was with his friend Adrian Willis when trouble broke out in Angel Place in the early hours of Wednesday, November 28.

Police were on duty in the city centre when a doorman called them over to warn them about a fight inside one of the nightspots.

"Chare and Willis had been ejected from the club," said Peter Parson, prosecuting at Droitwich Magistrates Court.

"But it may have been that Chare wasn't responsible for the violence. He made a statement that he had been struck - he did have injuries to his face."

As the officers walked up to him, Chare threw the glass on the floor.

"He told the police he had it because he was going to try and find the person that had attacked him in the nightclub. He was going to slice him with the piece of glass," Mr Parson said.

"He was obviously under the influence or he would have had more sense than to make those sort of remarks to a police officer, but he made it plain he was ready for further altercation."

The 18-year-old student was arrested, but Willis stepped in during the struggle and started swearing at the officers.

He was warned to keep quiet, but kept shouting and was arrested too.

Rob Macrory, defending, said the 18-year-olds had been subjected to "considerable provocation".

"Joseph Chare isn't someone who walks around with offensive weapons, but having been thumped hard, he would say now that he was frightened," he said.

"He's certainly not proud of the comments he made, which, as my friend said, was made in drink. It was a silly situation."

Both Chare, of Holt Heath, and Willis, of Oldbury Road, St John's, Worcester, were of previous good character, he said.

Willis, who was accused of causing harassment, alarm or distress, had the charge withdrawn, but was bound over to keep the peace for six months in the sum of £100.

Chare admitted possessing an offensive weapon, but had a charge of causing fear of violence by using threatening or abusive behaviour withdrawn.

He was given a 12-month conditional discharge and told to pay £65 costs.

The bench ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the glass.