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Knuckle dusters and broken bottles are just some of the weapons criminals in Kent have been found with in the last month.
We take a look at those who were caught and convicted for possessing dangerous items in public...
Billy Campbell, 23, Knight Avenue, Gillingham, appeared before Medway Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, March 17 where he was sentenced after admitting possessing an offensive weapon in public at an earlier hearing in January.
Campbell, was caught with a black handled kitchen knife in Skinner Street, Gillingham, in May last year.
Magistrates jailed Campbell for 60 days but suspended the term for 12 months. They also ordered he be supervised by probation for 12 months and complete a rehabilitation activity requirement for 15 days.
While in the dock, Campbell also admitted failing to turn up at the same court for an earlier hearing in March.
Magistrates fined him £50 for the offence, but also detained him in the court until the end of the day.
Campbell was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £128 and £85 court costs at a rate of £20 a month.
Kazeem Ozkaya, 25, of Christmas Street, Gillingham, appeared in court on Wednesday March 3, where he admitted two offences.
Magistrates in Medway heard Ozkaya, was caught with a CS spray which can discharge noxious gas or liquid in Rochester in August last year. This is an offence under the Firearms act 1968 and he was fined £75 for having the weapon.
While in the dock he also pleaded guilty to having a knife which was concealed to look like a credit card on the same day in Rochester.
For this offence magistrates jailed him for six weeks, but suspended the term for 12 months.
Magistrates also ordered the CS Spray and credit card shaped knife were destroyed.
Ozkaya was ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £128 and £85 court costs.
He will pay what he owes the court at a rate of £20 per month.
Joe Tubb, 20, c/o Glebe Lane Sittingbourne, appeared before magistrates in Medway on March 4, where he admitted being in possession of a knife and a quantity of cannabis.
Magistrates heard how Tubb was caught with a sliver butterfly flick knife at the Tesco Express in Canterbury Road, Sittingbourne in October last year.
The court also heard police found him on the same day, in possession of a tin with several bags of cannabis inside it.
Magistrates jailed him for 240 days for both offences and ordered the butterfly knife and the cannabis be destroyed.
Tubb was also ordered to pay £128 victim surcharge, but no court costs.
Carl Lee Kinslow, 36, c/o Second Avenue, Gillingham, appeared before Maidstone Magistrates' Court on Friday, March 5 after being charged with being in possession of a knife in public.
Magistrates heard Kinslow was caught with a large silver kitchen knife in Sittingbourne in October last year and had denied being in possession of the knife.
However, Kinslow was found guilty after a trial at the court in February and returned for sentencing on March 5.
Magistrates jailed him for 180 days but suspended the term for 12 months and ordered he be supervised by probation for 12 months. He must complete a rehabilitation activity requirement for 15 days.
Kinslow was also ordered to carry out 80 hours' of unpaid work and to pay a victim surcharge of £128 and £770 court costs. He will pay at a rate of £40 a month.
Magistrates ordered the large knife be destroyed.
Ryan Maw, 21, of Gower House, Canning Street, Maidstone, found himself facing magistrates in Maidstone on Tuesday, March 2 after being charged with two offences.
Magistrates heard Maw was caught with a lock knife outside the Malta Inn in Maidstone in January and was also found with a quantity of cannabis on the same day.
He pleaded guilty to both offences when he appeared in the dock.
Maw was jailed for 60 days for both offences, but was on a recall to prison for other matters and magistrates heard he is not actually due from release until 2023.
He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £128, but no court costs.
Mustapha Tobisas Daniels, 29, of High Street, Margate, appeared at Margate Magistrates' Court on Thursday, March 18, where he admitted three offences.
Magistrates heard Daniels, was caught at Canterbury East Railway Station in September last year with a quantity of cannabis, a Class B drug.
He was also found to be travelling on the railway without paying his fare of £5.80 and received no separate penalty for the offence, but was ordered to pay Southeastern Railways, £5.80 compensation.
When Daniels was searched, officers also found he had a locking knife on him.
Magistrates jailed him for 90 days for all the offences, but suspended the term for 18 months. Daniels was also ordered to be supervised by probation for 18 months and must complete a rehabilitation activity requirement for 20 days.
He was also ordered to pay £128 victim surcharge and £85 court costs and will repay the court what he owes at a rate of £20 a month.
The bench ordered the cannabis and knife be destroyed.
Liam Barrett, 32, of Telham Avenue, Ramsgate, appeared before magistrates in Folkestone on Thursday March 4, where he pleaded guilty to three offences.
Magistrates heard Barrett was found with a black-handled mini cleaver knife in the High Street, St Lawrence, in Ramsgate in December.
Barrett was also found in possession of heroin, a quantity of crack cocaine and some amphetamine on the same day and while in the dock also admitted failing to surrender to custody at Margate Police Station in December which he was meant to do so as terms of his bail requirements.
Magistrates made a community order on Barrett which will involve him completing a drug rehabilitation requirement for nine months. He must also complete a rehabilitation activity requirement with probation officers for 15 days
He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £95 and £85 court costs and the court will apply for his payments to be deducted from his benefits.
Magistrates also ordered the mini cleaver knife and the drugs should be destroyed.
Johnson Taylor, 26, of Mill Road, Hawley, Dartford, appeared before magistrates in Bromley on Wednesday, March 3, where he admitted being in possession of an offensive weapon in public.
The court heard Taylor was found with a broken glass bottle in Harbour Way, Port Talbot, in Wales, in September last year.
Magistrates fined him £120 and ordered he pay a victim surcharge of £34 and £85 court costs and the broken glass bottle was ordered to be destroyed.
Tyler Murphy, 23, of Darnley Street, Gravesend, appeared before magistrates in Medway on Wednesday, March 10, where he admitted several charges.
Magistrates heard how Murphy was caught in Ackers Drive, Ebbsfleet Valley, Swanscombe, in February with a metal knuckle duster, he was fined £184 for the offence.
While in the dock he also admitted failing to stop for police in a BMW 320d in the same road on the same day and was fined £50.
He also had no insurance - which magistrates punished with six points and another £50 fine - or a licence which received no separate penatly.
Murphy was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £34 and £85 court costs and will repay the courts at a rate of £100 a month.
Magistrates ordered the knuckle duster be destroyed.
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