A serial knifeman caught carrying a blade yet again has been freed after promising to turn his life around.
Jordan Akinforlarin, who has displayed a "persistent pattern for carrying knives", went to a job centre in Newcastle city centre armed with a blade in his latest offence.
Although he didn't produce it, a woman working there said she felt intimidated by his behaviour and ended up calling the police. When officers caught up with him, he had a lock knife with a Stanley blade inserted into it. Akinforlarin was facing a jail sentence at Newcastle Crown Court but after hearing he had stopped taking Spice and was trying to change his life around, a judge gave him a chance to prove himself.
