A TADLEY man who was found with a lock knife in a public place has been put on a curfew. 

Matthew Choules, of Pelican Road, had the lock knife without good reason in Church Lane, Worting, on Saturday, March 25. 

The 19-year-old indicated a guilty plea during a hearing at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, October 17. 

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Choules was then sentenced at the same court on Tuesday, December 5. 

Magistrates imposed a curfew for three months and ordered Choules to pay £85 court costs and a £114 victim surcharge. 

They also ordered for the lock knife to be forfeited and destroyed.