THREE brave Bude men were each awarded £250 out of public funds by a Judge at Truro Crown Court on February 22.

Robert Jones, Simon Clarke and Richard Allsopp had acted with great courage and at cost to themselves in successfully disarming a violent man brandishing a dangerous knife and restraining him until the police arrived to arrest him, declared Judge Christopher Harvey Clark QC.

"I direct that they should each be rewarded to reflect the public commendation they deserve for the way they behaved."

Commenting that 23-year-old David Cox, on holiday from his home in Coventry, had behaved like a "vicious bully" the Judge jailed him for two years and three months after he had admitted assaulting a 13-year-old boy, causing him actual bodily harm, and being in possession of an article with a blade or point in Bude on August 28 last year.

Prosecutor Philip Lee said that Cox believed youths were responsible for stealing his skateboard.

He was angry, and probably intoxicated, when he pulled a camping knife from his pocket and brandished it at three young men.

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