Community work order for Kirby Misperton man who took knife to York court

Christopher Stuart Wilson, 56, from land near Kirby Misperton, pleaded guilty to possessing an offensive weapon in a public place, namely a lock knife at York Magistrates Court, Clifford Street, on December 21 last year.

He was sentenced to a community order, requiring him to carry out 160 hours of unpaid work within the next 12 months and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85, and a victim surcharge of £85, at York Magistrates’ Court last Thursday.

Wilson was also fined £100 for the commission of a further offence whilst subject to a conditional discharge, imposed on December 6, 2017, at Blackpool Magistrates’ Court, for an offence of obstructing the highway at Preston New Road in Lancashire.