WATCH: Unhinged Southsea man during mosque knife attack

The 29-year-old was captured on camera acting aggressively during a racist attack outside the Jami Mosque in Victoria Road North on Sunday around 9.30pm.

Mcinally, of Waverley Road, has today pleaded guilty at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court to racially aggravated common assault by beating, assault by beating, racially aggravated intentional harassment, and threatening a person with a blade in a public place.

The video shows the drunk and incoherent Mcinally shouting and swearing at men outside the mosque before suddenly pulling a knife from his sleeve and aiming it towards one of the victims. “He’s got a knife, he’s got a knife,” one of the threatened men is heard saying before pushing away the defendant’s arm.

Mcinally then moves back, drops the knife before picking it up and strides forward menacingly as the men are heard saying “get back” amid growing fears over Mcinally’s unpredictable and hostile behaviour.

The defendant then bizarrely says: “What have we got to do to protect our children?” He follows this up by launching the blade over a wall and into bushes before he is consoled by one of the men who puts his arm around him as Mcinally stumbles away from the mosque.

Mcinally was remanded into custody for a month and will next appear at Portsmouth Crown Court on Friday 3 October for sentencing.