A SERIAL shoplifter who threatened to "cut" a cyclist while holding a metal bar has been jailed.

The cyclist had gone to Darren Price’s home in the hope of finding his stolen bicycle, said Matthew Collins, prosecuting.

After Price and a woman aggressively forced him to leave, Price stood in the house doorway holding a metal bar, threatening to “cut him”.

Price, 35, of St Mary’s, York, pleaded guilty to affray and was jailed for six months, on top of 44 weeks he was already serving. He will now spend about 17 months behind bars.

“Don’t brandish metal bars at people, even in your own doorway,” Judge Simon Hickey told him at York Crown Court.

Mr Collins said the cyclist believed that someone at Price’s house had offered his stolen bike for sale.

Local residents saw Price threatening him through their windows and doorways and called 999.

Price has 122 previous convictions, many of them for shoplifting.

For Price, Chloe Fairley said he accepted he had to be jailed. Most of his previous convictions were low level offending.

He had only reacted to someone who had "burst into his home".

Price had intended to appeal against the 44-week sentence passed by a district judge but when it was listed at the crown court, abandoned his appeal.