Two men have been warned that self defence was not a good enough reason for carrying knives in public when they were given good behaviour bonds in Orange Local Court on Monday.
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Stephen Edward Stockwell, 32, formerly of Kent Avenue, was given an 18-month good behaviour bond after being found with two knives in the lane behind The Hotel Canobolas at 7.25pm on April 17.
Stockwell has previously been charged with carrying a knife in public, which led to police stopping and searching him near Lords Place.
He had a kitchen knife with a 9 centimetre blade wedged between the waistband of his pants and his stomach. In his backpack was a second knife with a 14 centimetre blade.
Stockwell was also given a 12-month good-behaviour bond, to run concurrently with his other sentence, after being found in possession of a knife in Matthews Avenue at 1.30am on March 30.
The kitchen knife was wedged between his waistband and torso, he also had a shank-style knife on a lanyard around his neck.
He said the knives were for protection as he’d been recently assaulted.
In another case, Darryl White, 32, of Wolsley Street, was given a 12-month good behaviour bond for having a kitchen knife in his possession in Robertson Park at 7pm on April 7.
He also said the knife was for protection.
For a separate charge of larceny, issued at the same time, White was given a 12-month good behaviour bond.
He was found in possession of a gold Bvlgari ring, and two bags of coloured stones, which were stolen from a Summer Street shop.
Both men’s solicitors said they told their clients they could not carry a knife for self-defence.