A drink and drug-fuelled council worker slashed a man with a large machete as he and two others attempted to force their way into their victim’s flat. Riley Meadows swiped the fearsome-looking blade at the man’s hand through a gap in the front door as one of his accomplices, Andrew Brown, wedged it open with his foot. The terrifying raid at The Metropole in New Street, Dover, was captured on a neighbour’s Ring doorbell, with the video later used to identify both men. The footage, played at Canterbury Crown Court and described as “uncomfortable viewing”, showed them arriving with a third, unide…