Unpaid work for Kettering man caught with knuckleduster

He was caught after a stop and search

A man who was caught with a knuckleduster during a stop and search in Kettering has been ordered to complete unpaid work.

Jason Macdonald, 37, was arrested when police stopped a black Mercedes at about 6.50pm on March 4 last year.

During the search in Windmill Avenue police found the weapon, cannabis and two bags of cocaine.

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Northampton Magistrates' Court.

Macdonald, of Regent Street, was charged with possession of an offensive weapon and possession of both a class A and class B drug.

He pleaded guilty to the offences when he appeared before magistrates last month.

Macdonald was sentenced to a community order with 100 hours of unpaid work and told to pay costs of £85 and a surcharge to fund victim services of £95.

Magistrates made an order depriving him of his rights to the knuckleduster.

Macdonald was given a suspended sentence after burgling a shop in Wellingborough in January 2022, ten months after the knuckleduster incident.

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