Man took knife to Kettering bar

A man caught with a knife in a Kettering bar has been given a suspended jail term.

Jake Freeland, 32, admitted carrying a punching dagger knife, a weapon designed to be held so that the blade points out of a clenched fist, at Brooklyn Bar in Ebenezer Place on May 2.

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Brooklyn Bar.

He was arrested and taken to the Weekley Wood Justice Centre where he was caught with cocaine. He also admitted possessing the class A drug.

At Northampton Magistrates' Court earlier this month Freeland, of Hawthorn Road, was jailed for four months suspended for a year.

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Brooklyn Bar.

He must complete 10 days of rehabilitation requirements and carry out 180 hours of unpaid work.

Magistrates also fined him £350 and ordered him to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £115.

The knife will be destroyed.

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