Meat cleaver waver was depressed about his marriage

A meat cleaver wielding homophobe who called two strangers ‘batty boys’ will walk free after spending seven months in jail. Derek Bryan, 54, threatened the two men, with only one identified as being ‘Mr Halsey,’ on Upper Tulse Hill Road, Tulse Hill, southwest London on 9 August last year. While under the influence of drink and drugs he approached them and made the homophobic slur, Inner London Crown Court heard. When the men threatened to ‘out him’ he dropped his…