A MAN in his fifties has been handed a suspended prison sentence after admitting carrying a locking knife through Great Horton.

George Herson, 57, of Lidget Place, Lidget Green, admitted the offence at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court on January 12, having previously denied the charge and electing a trial in December.

He admitted carrying the locking knife in Welbeck Drive, Great Horton, on November 23 without good reason or lawful authority.

After admitting the charge, with his guilty plea accounted for, magistrates sentenced Herson to 16 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months.

He was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £128 and £85 costs.

Herson was also sentenced for a further offence which he admitted on December 16 - failing without reasonable cause to surrender to custody at court nine days earlier on December 7, when he was originally due to appear before magistrates for the knife possession offence.

For this he was sentenced to another week's custody, suspended for 12 months, to be served concurrently with the other suspended sentence.

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