A MAN has been jailed after threatening to stab a train conductor in the face at Central Station.

Phillip Coleburn will serve 12 weeks after he threatened to stab a train conductor in the face at the railway station last week.

On Wednesday, April 6, the 39-year-old boarded the 10.49pm service to Liverpool without a ticket and refused to buy one when prompted.

A conductor ordered Coleburn to leave the train but he refused and called the guard a ‘grass’ before threatening to stab him in the face.

The train was halted for 10 minutes while British Transport Police made their way to the station.

When they did arrive, Coleburn told a female officer: “I’ll snap your f***y off if you don’t get out of my face – what the f**k have I done?”

Liverpool resident Coleburn refused to come out of his cell at Runcorn Custody Suite the next day and used toilet roll to wipe his backside, which he proceeded to wipe across the cell wall.

The cell had to be deep cleaned.

Coleburn admitted criminal damage, harassment and being drunk and disorderly at Halton Magistrates Court on Friday April 8.

He last appeared before the courts on September 17 when he was handed a 12-week prison sentence suspended for two years for child neglect.

The court heard that while Coleburn had previously appeared before the courts almost every month, there has been a ‘marked decrease’ in his offending and this was only his second appearance since October 2014.

Coleburn does not remember the events of the evening and suffers from alcoholism.

Magistrates opted to partially-activate Coleburn’s suspended sentence, ordering him to serve eight weeks in prison.

He was also jailed for four weeks for the latest offence and will pay £80 compensation.