A man who threatened to throw acid at police officers as he was arrested for a knife point robbery has been jailed.

Cambridgeshire Police said Donald Chatten, 20, was in the Lord Protector, in Mayfield Road, Huntingdon, at about 5.15pm on 13 January when he stole the contents of the victim’s side bag.

Police said that the victim, who knew Chatten from school, repeatedly asked for it back.

However, without warning, police said Chatten pulled out a pocketknife with a serrated blade and held it close to the victim’s face, saying, “it’s the knife or the bag” and “do you want to feel the blade?”

The victim told Chatten to keep the bag and the victim’s partner informed the pub landlady who told him to leave as he was barred from the premises.

Chatten left the pub and drove off in a Ford Fiesta before he was arrested by armed officers in Coldhams North.

A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Police said that upon arrest, Chatten became abusive and made threats towards officers, including that he would throw acid in their faces and shoot them with a shotgun.

On Friday (7 August), at Peterborough Crown Court, Chatten, of Coronation Avenue, Warboys, near Huntingdon, was sentenced to 20 months in a young offenders institution, having pleaded guilty to robbery and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.

DC Neil Patrick, who investigated, said: “This was a totally unprovoked robbery by Chatten which was terrifying for the victim, having a knife held against his face.”