'I was so hammered - if I did it, I did it', says man watching CCTV of carnage he caused

A former keep fit fanatic threatened to stab and shoot a pub regular, held up an off licence at knifepoint and vowed to rape the mothers and girlfriends of police after he went on a lager and Jack Daniels fuelled rampage.

Later, after ex-gym disciple Samuel Tinker, 32, had sobered up and was shown CCTV footage of his hour long violence spree, he confessed: ''I was so hammered - if I did it, I did it.'' Tinker, a groundsman, had got drunk at his local before turning on a fellow tippler at random saying: “what the f**k are you looking at. I’m not a f*****g muppet, I’ll stab, slash, and shoot you.”

He then left the premises and staggered to a nearby store where attempted to steal Jack Daniels mixer cans from the shelves. When confronted by an assistant, Tinker threatened him with a craft knife saying: “I am English - you’re a f*****g Iraqi, Iranian or Pakistani.''

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When police arrived at the scene in Mossley, Tinker called one officer a ''daft c***'' and told his colleagues: ''I'm gonna rape your mothers and girlfriends.'' He even told a second officer: ''What you are looking at it Mr Abu Dhabi P**i?” whilst being processed at the police station. He later admitted being a ''pathologically aggressive and racist bully boy'' when in drink.

At Minshull Street Crown Court, Tinker, from Mossley, was jailed for 30 months after he admitted attempted robbery, possession of a bladed article, a public order offence and two counts of causing racially aggravated alarm or distress.

Miss Harriet Tighe, prosecuting, said, “At around 8pm on the 23rd of February, the defendant was drinking at The Commercial, in Mossley. He was talking to the barmaid when he turned