Knife-wielding man not yet found by police after scaring residents in busy Northampton estate

A knife-wielding man has not yet been found after scaring neighbours in a busy Northampton housing estate.

Reports were made on the Upton Facebook group and later to the police that a man was 'shouting loudly with a large knife' in Brunel Drive yesterday (November 25).

A Northamptonshire Police spokeswoman said: "This happened in Telford Way at 8.35pm when we got reports of a black man in a dark green tracksuit with a knife.

"We deployed but the man was not located and no further incidents were reported."

A witness to the incident said: "He was just chanting in a foreign language, waving a large knife around then shouted at us in gibberish. We quickly walked away and I rang 999. Crazy."