Man caught wielding samurai sword while wearing a Friday 13th-style horror film hockey mask faces jail

A man who was caught late at night armed with a Samurai sword while wearing a Friday 13th-style horror film hockey mask has been warned he faces jail.

Terrified members of the public phoned the police after spotting a group of young people brandishing bricks and sticks in the early hours of Friday.

When graduate Abdullahi Abdullahi, 21, spotted the police arrive at the scene in Islington, north London, he ran off, London's Highbury Magistrates' Court heard.

He dumped the two foot long sword and tore off the hockey mask - like that worn by Jason Voorhees in the classic horror film.

When police showed Abdullahi the sword and mask, the graduate insisted he was only carrying them for self defence because he had been stabbed twice before.