Man caught with knife and knuckle duster in Wakefield street is jailed at Leeds Crown Court

A man was caught with a knife and a  damaged  knuckle duster after police were called to a disturbance in a Wakefield street.
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A man was caught with a knife and a damaged knuckle duster after police were called to a disturbance on a street in Wakefield.

Jason Wood claimed he had found the weapons after he was arrested by police called to a disturbance involving around ten people on Arundel Street near Lightwaves Leisure Centre in Wakefield, Leeds Crown Court heard.

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The court heard police saw Wood, 43, who had suffered an injury to a finger, running away when they arrived at the scene of the incident on August 16.

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Prosecutor Martin Robertshaw said police asked him to stop and when he did they asked if he had anything with him.

Mr Robertshaw said Wood told officers: "I have a knife in my pocket."

Wood was searched and found to have a knife and a knuckle duster, which was damaged.

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Wood told officers that he found the weapons on the floor and picked them up to get them out of the way.

He admitted possessing a bladed article in a public place and possession of an offensive weapon.

Wood, of Arundel Close, Wakefield, has 14 previous convictions for 74 offences, including two offences of possessing a knife in a public place.

Allan Armbrister, mitigating, said Wood had been walking to the shops when he was the victim of an assault.

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Mr Armbrister said that when police arrived on the scene, Wood was running home because he had been assaulted, not because he was trying to evade officers.

Mr Armbrister said there was no evidence his client had produced the knife, adding: "He was very stupid to pick up a knife, given the circumstances.

"One of his friends had been attacked a few weeks before and that was playing on his mind."

Jailing Wood for ten months, Judge Neil Clark told him: "The bladed article it seems to me, is the most serious. You have done this before."