A man was caught out walking the streets with knives while already on a suspended sentence, a court has heard. Damien Greenhalgh, 47, was stopped by police around the Harrowby Street and Harrowby Lane area of Farnworth on Sunday, February 11 this year. Bolton Crown Court heard how he was one of three men officers, driving by in an unmarked police van, had seen and that on searching him they found two knives.
Prosecutor Peter Malone said: “One was a silver butter knife, and one was a kitchen knife with a pink handle.” Mr Malone told the court how Greenhalgh, of Beechwood Street, Great Lever, was seen wearing a “large metal chain around his neck” which he discarded when the police approached. The case was heard at Bolton Crown Court (Image: Newsquest) At the time he was serving an 18-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, which had been handed down by Bolton Crown Court last October for a burglary he had committed.
Greenhalgh had also been ordered to complete 30 rehabilitation activity requirement days and a 19-month drug rehabilitation requirement as part of his sentence. Mr Malone said that Greenhalgh, who has 35 previous convictions for 65 offences, had shown “some compliance” with these conditions at first. But he lost touch with the probation service in February this year.
Brought before the courts he pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a bladed article in a public place and to breaching the terms of his suspended sentence order. Richard Brig.
