A blade-carrying teenager was caught with a combat knife while vomiting and falling over drunk on a train.

Morgan Rintoul-Heaton’s shirt “rode up” over his black combat-knife attached to his waist, as his friends escorted him to the toilet.

An off-duty officer saw the lock-knife and the 19-year-old was arrested at Ashford International Station, where he continued vomiting towards officers.

Rintoul-Heaton was today handed a community order at Canterbury Crown Court and ordered to maintain sobriety for three months.

Rintoul-Heaton told the court he carried the weapon for self-defence, prompted a judge to explain “ordinary lads arming themselves is how some end up dead”.

Rintoul-Heaton and two other men were drunk on a train from London Victoria to Ashford International Station on March 31, prosecutors explained.

“A police officer observed the defendant in a group of three men, who were travelling from Victoria to Ashford.

“The defendant was heavily intoxicated, vomited on the train, and escorted to the toilet by his friends.

“His shirt rode up - the officer noticed a sheath out of his belt,” barrister Leigh Hart explained.

When Rintoul-Heaton was searched and the knife uncovered he became abusive to police, telling one officer: “I’ll put you to sleep.”

Body-worn footage played in court showed the police trying to help Rintoul-Heaton before he became aggressive.

Maggie Biglou, mitigating, argued Rintoul-Heaton’s “unattractive” behaviour was largely due to being over-intoxicated.

She told the court: “He can be seen (on the body worn camera footage) vomiting a number of times towards the officers, not very palatable, not very attractive.”

Miss Bijoux explained he was of previous good character and experienced a troubled upbringing being raised in care alongside aspergers, attention deficit disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.

But judge Rupert Lowe told the teen he needed to grow-up and stop being defiant with authority, because it will eventually land him in prison.

“This is how some ordinary lads end up dead because they think arming themselves with a knife is a good idea, it’s not a good idea.

“What if there was a fight? What if they got stabbed? What if you got stabbed?”

“You must never have a knife on you again in a public place,” he continued.

But he told Rintoul-Heaton it would be “disproportionate” to lock him up given it is his first offence.

Benefit claimant Rintoul-Heaton, of Devon Row in Spring Lane, Canterbury, was handed a 12-month community order with a 120 days alcohol abstinence requirement and 20 rehabilitation requirement days.

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