Drug user 'excited by weapons' stabbed man with push-dagger

A MAN with an "unhealthy interest in weapons" stabbed someone in the stomach with a "push-dagger" in a seemingly motiveless attack, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS

A judge said it was clear Oliver Dowling had been "spoiling for trouble" when he armed with two "fearsome weapons" and attacked his victim. Cardiff Crown Court heard that when the defendant was arrested by armed officers in a pub car park he was "excitable" and quizzed them about their guns.

Dean Pulling, prosecuting, told the court that at lunchtime on July 14 this year the complainant in the case was at home on the Hafalnod estate in Tenby when he heard someone shouting outside the property. He said the man looked out of the window and saw that Dowling - someone he knew of through mutual friends - was in the garden issuing threats.

The prosecutor said the defendant was carrying a "push-dagger" - a knuckleduster-like weapon with a blade sticking out - and a flick-knife.