A teen who threatened his dad with a knife, bit a police officer and stole his mother’s medication will spend Christmas behind bars.

Cade Robert David Adams, 18 and of no fixed abode, appeared before Bournemouth Crown Court on Friday, December 2 for sentencing.

He had pleaded guilty to charges of threatening someone with an offensive weapon, resisting a police officer, theft, assaulting an emergency worker and committing an offence whilst on conditional discharge.

The charges all relate to incidents on the night of October 28 into 29 of this year at an address on Church Close, Bridport.

The court heard that, on that night, Adams had been out drinking before returning to the family home.

A ‘physical struggle’ ensued after Adams’ father, Stephen, told him not to go into his mother’s bedroom.

It is then that Adams went into the kitchen and grabbed a ‘small knife’, pointed it towards his father and stepped forward before the knife was ‘knocked to safety’.

Adams then returned to the kitchen and ‘armed himself with a second, larger knife’. On this occasion the teen held it above his head, again pointed towards his dad prompting another struggle.

Adams’ mother was awoken and able to remove the knife from her son.

Adams then proceeded to pin his dad to the kitchen table and grab him by the throat before stealing ten pre-filled syringes of Cloxane - medication belonging to his mother – and leaving the house.

He returned about an hour later and prosecutors told the court it took six police officers to remove Adams from the family home, during which Adams bit one of them in the chest. No injuries were reported.

Prosecutors said Cade Adams had a history of previous convictions – including ‘significant youth cautions’ for assaulting emergency workers and criminal damage.

Mr Stephen Adams gave evidence to the court and said: “This is the first time I said enough is enough and that we are not scapegoats for his behaviour.”

“We want Cade back, we don’t want a sentence, we want support for him."

Cade’s father added that his son had ‘anger issues’ dating back to before he was a teenager and that there ‘issues had bubbled’ since his son was placed into care.

Charles Gabb, mitigating, said he was ‘not trying to extract some misplaced sympathy’ but did not view a custodial sentence as ‘beneficial to society’.

In sentencing, Recorder Mawhinney said “this is a very sad case” but one that warranted a custodial sentence.

He told Cade Adams: “I suspect you have a lot to offer and I hope, in the nicest way possible, we don’t see each other again.

“You need to put this behind you and, when you get out, resume your relationship with your father - I’ve been remarkably impressed by him.”

Cade Adams was sentenced to a total of ten months in prison: he will be released on license after five months.