A North Wales man with mental health problems went on a rampage at Burnley General Hospital in Lancashire.

Magistrates in Blackburn heard how Christian Osbaldeston threatened two female members of the administrative staff, assaulted a member of the maintenance team and assaulted a security officer which was racially aggravated.

Osbaldeston, 36, of The Promenade, Llanfairfechan, pleaded guilty to assaulting Andrew Crossley, racially aggravated assault of Mohammed Nisar, using threatening behaviour towards Julie Constantine and Beverley Duffy and damaging a door belonging to Burnley General Hospital.

He was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay £150 compensation each to Mr Crossley and Mr Nisar and £125 compensation to the hospital.

Pam Ward, prosecuting, said Ms Duffy was an administrator at the hospital and at around 10am had been dealing with a lady who had had an accident with one of the doors. Mr Crossley, a maintenance fitter, came to look at the door and at that point Osbaldeston came in and demanded to look at his notes.

"He started walking towards Ms Duffy with his arms flailing, said she was with the police and called her a name," said Mrs Ward. "Mr Crossley intervened to try and get him to calm down but he continued shouting and screaming."

Ms Duffy ran into the office to get away.

On the same day Ms Constantine was working in her office in the hospital. She received a call from Osbaldeston about his notes and told him they were not ready. He started shouting and swearing and ended the call.

"A few minutes later he walked past the office window staring at her," said Mrs Ward. "A colleague then shouted that he was coming into the office and Ms Constantine had to barge the door shut before locking it. He shouted further abuse at the window and said he would come back with a machete."

Osbaldeston kicked in the door to the records section and was confronted by Mr Crossley who managed to stop him going any further.

Mr Nisar arrived and tried to calm the defendant but he ripped his body-cam off and threw it at Mr Crossley, hitting him on the forehead. He started throwing punches at Mr Nasir and then ran away from the hospital.

Duncan Nightingale, defending, said his client was not well mentally at the time of the offences in December 2019.

"That would not be any comfort to the victims because they weren't aware of it," said Mr Nightingale. "It is accepted his behaviour would have been very distressing for all concerned."