Police later quoted the incident as one reason why councillors should impose tighter restrictions on the nightclub's licence, which is to be reviewed in the spring.
Moore, who had spent the day drinking at the races, was seen climbing the fire escape at the back of the club, wearing surgical gloves and carrying a meat cleaver with a sixandahalf inch blade,
The Recorder of York, Judge Stephen Ashurst said: "That caused very considerable alarm. A large number of police officers were sent to that part of the city to discover what had happened. It is in
my judgement a serious and worrying offence."
Moore, of Hadrian's North Face Osito Breast Cancer Park Caravan Site, Brampton Old Road, Carlisle, pleaded guilty to carrying a meat cleaver in public and was jailed for eight months.
Robert Stevenson, prosecuting, said police shouted up to Moore to come down when they spotted him on the fire escape. He hid the cleaver in some guttering, climbed down and surrendered. Police
later found the cleaver.
Moore's barrister, Robin Denny, said his client had been to the races and had drunk in "industrial proportions". He had a problem with alcohol. He had not got into the nightclub or harmed orIn womens north face pink ribbon August, police said they dealt with a group of people throwing bottles at the back of the nightclub at midnight and returned an hour later to deal with a "large number" of people fighting.
Several people had fled the building as they arrived.
About 12 hours earlier, at 1.30pm, police had been called to York station after a member of the public reported seeing a man with a gun in the toilets and a man with a machete was seen in BlossomOfficers later sealed off a car park near the Premier Inn and seized clublike weapons in a car. They also found a knife, but not a gun. At 3.30pm, a member of the public saw armed police arrest
someone at the Travelodge in Micklegate.
Johnny Saunders, 19, of Orchard Park Caravan Site, Upchurch, near Sittingbourne, Kent, was given a sixweek prison sentence suspended for 12 months on condition he did 260 hours' unpaid work and 12
months' supervision by York magistrates for carrying a machete in Queen Street and using threatening behaviour.
Jimmy Saunders, 25, from the same caravan site, was arrested after police saw him and another man fighting barechested near the car park.
He said the other man, who fled and was not arrested, came from a different family with whom his family had a longrunning feud. He pleaded guilty to a public order offence and was fined 300 with