Marcus Bent Avoids Jail For Drug-Fuelled Affray

Former footballer Marcus Bent has avoided jail for confronting two police officers with a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife. Bent had called 999 reporting that he had heard intruders in his flat in Claremont Lane, Esher. But after police arrived at the property, backed up by armed officers, they were confronted by a bare-chested Bent who was "eyes wide, jaw clenched, his body rigid".