A CARDIGAN man who brought a knife to the town’s rugby club has been handed a suspended jail term by magistrates.
Andrew Scott, of Flat 3 Llwynon, Priory Street, appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 21 February.
The 27-year-old pleaded guilty at the hearing to possessing a knife at Cardigan Rugby Club on Saturday, 19 February.
The court heard that Scott was in possession of an “ivory-handled” knife at the club.
Magistrates sentenced Scott to six months in prison, suspended for 18 months.
Magistrates said that while the offence was “so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified”, the sentence was suspended because Scott had a “real prospect of rehabilitation”, had “shown real remorse”, and had begun to have “stability in his life”.
Scott was also be electronically tagged after being made the subject of a nightly curfew between 8pm and 6am for four months.
He must also pay costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £85.