Police were called when a drunken man was found asleep outside a resident's flat - shoeless and with a hunting-style knife in a pouch by his feet. The man was Steven Golding, 41, of Grange Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham Magistrates' Court heard today (January 10).
He pleaded guilty to possessing the knife in Vernon Road, Old Basford, after the court heard how he was woken by police and the knife seized. "The defendant was intoxicated," said Sanjay Jareth, prosecuting. "He appeared to be wearing no shoes and he stated he did not live in the complex."
Golding, who has 30 convictions for 108 offences, was last before the court for assaulting an emergency worker and was sentenced to six months in prison. He has previous convictions for threatening with a blade, robbery, handling stolen goods, burglary, and having an offensive weapon in public in 2013.
