A drug addict claimed he did not mean to pull a razor blade from his pocket as he tried to pay for his shopping at a Morrisons store. Richard Morris has been jailed after an alarmed cashier reported the blade in the Newport supermarket.
Police arrested the 52-year-old on November 4 last year at the Morrisons on Orb Drive in Lliswerry. His solicitor Rod Young told Newport Magistrates' Court: "The defendant says he had a knife, fork and razor blade in his pocket. He was at the checkout to pay for some items and reached into his pocket to get the money out. The money fell onto the conveyor belt and the razor blade was in his hand. He immediately put it back into his pocket but police were called because the cashier saw the razor blade."
Mr Young said his client has "no real reason or knowledge" as to why he was carrying the razor, knife or fork but "insists there was nothing sinister". The solicitor added: "It was more absent-minded than anything else."
