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Published: 04/02/2009 00:00 -
Updated: 19/02/2009 00:30
A 20-year-old man was caught wandering along a city street holding a bloody bread knife, a court has heard.
Kayne Houchin, of St George's Way, Wolverton, was spotted by police on CCTV cameras, walking along Radcliffe Street with the knife in his hand.
On Friday he appeared before magistrates in Milton Keynes, charged with having a knife in a public place without good reason or lawful authority.
Tristan Driscoll, prosecuting, told the court that on December 5 last year, police received reports of Houchin carrying a bread knife outside The Queen Victoria pub in Wolverton.
Officers approached a group of men outside the pub and when they asked Houchin to step away, he dropped a bread knife from behind his back onto the pavement.
Police arrested him and a search uncovered a small quantity of cocaine in his tracksuit trousers, for which he was also charged.
Mr Driscoll told the court: "He said he couldn't really remember what happened because he was drinking but he remembered picking up the bread knife in the kitchen of the Queen Victoria pub.
"CCTV showed him walking down the street holding it in his right hand.
"The officer did put to him that there was blood on it and he told them it was his blood and he had cut himself while handling it."
Houchin pleaded guilty to both charges at the earliest opportunity.
His solicitor, Gemma Stokes, said: "He had been out with his friends, drinking all day.
"He doesn't know what possessed him.
"He picked up the instrument and began walking to another public house.
"He lives with his mum and since this incident he has not used any drugs at all.
"He's absolutely petrified of going into custody."
Chairman of the magistrates, Mr Ifould, handed Houchin a suspended sentence of four weeks at a detention centre, suspended for 12 months.
Houchin was placed under a supervision order for a year and a curfew order for 12 weeks which means he must stay at home between 7pm and 7am.
He was also ordered to complete 70 hours of unpaid work and pay costs of £60.
Kayne Houchin, of St George's Way, Wolverton, was spotted by police on CCTV cameras, walking along Radcliffe Street with the knife in his hand.
On Friday he appeared before magistrates in Milton Keynes, charged with having a knife in a public place without good reason or lawful authority.
Tristan Driscoll, prosecuting, told the court that on December 5 last year, police received reports of Houchin carrying a bread knife outside The Queen Victoria pub in Wolverton.
Officers approached a group of men outside the pub and when they asked Houchin to step away, he dropped a bread knife from behind his back onto the pavement.
Police arrested him and a search uncovered a small quantity of cocaine in his tracksuit trousers, for which he was also charged.
Mr Driscoll told the court: "He said he couldn't really remember what happened because he was drinking but he remembered picking up the bread knife in the kitchen of the Queen Victoria pub.
"CCTV showed him walking down the street holding it in his right hand.
"The officer did put to him that there was blood on it and he told them it was his blood and he had cut himself while handling it."
Houchin pleaded guilty to both charges at the earliest opportunity.
His solicitor, Gemma Stokes, said: "He had been out with his friends, drinking all day.
"He doesn't know what possessed him.
"He picked up the instrument and began walking to another public house.
"He lives with his mum and since this incident he has not used any drugs at all.
"He's absolutely petrified of going into custody."
Chairman of the magistrates, Mr Ifould, handed Houchin a suspended sentence of four weeks at a detention centre, suspended for 12 months.
Houchin was placed under a supervision order for a year and a curfew order for 12 weeks which means he must stay at home between 7pm and 7am.
He was also ordered to complete 70 hours of unpaid work and pay costs of £60.
