CENTRAL NEWS SERVICE, PRESS ROOM, CENTRAL CRIMINAL

CENTRAL NEWS SERVICE, PRESS ROOM, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, OLD BAILEY,
EC4,TEL:236-O116.

HIGH COURT, DECEMBER 18, 1986/AVM.

COX

A SOUTH-EAST LONDON MAN JAILED AFTER BEING FOUND IN A STREET
WEARING BOXER SHORTS WITH TWO KITCHEN KNIVES IN THE BELT WAS FREED
FROM PRISON TODAY [THURSDAY] BY THE CRIMINAL APPEAL COURT.

ALAN JOHN COX, 24, OF GLADSTONE STREET, S.

E.

I.

, WAS GIVEN SIX
MONTHS AT THE INNER LONDON SESSIONS LAST MONTH AFTER PLEADING NOT
GUILTY TO CARRYING OFFENSIVE WEAPONS.

SUSPENDING THE REST OF HIS SENTENCE, LORD JUSTICE WOOLF SAID
IN THE APPEAL COURT:’HE WAS SEEN BY POLICE OFFICERS IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE ROAD ON JULY 6 IN CONDITIONS DESCRIBED AS BIZARRE.

‘HE WAS WEARING BOXER SHORTS WITH TWO KITCHEN KNIVES STUCK IN
THE BELT.

HE WAS THE WORSE FOR DRINK.

‘HE SAID ‘SOMEONE HAS NICKED MY CAR AND I’M LOOKING FOR
THEM”.

THE JUDGE SAID:’THIS COURT WOULD NORMALLY BE RELUCTANT TO
INTERFERE WHERE A JURY HAS CONVICTED ON AN OFFENCE OF CARRYING
OFFENSIVE WEAPONS.

‘BUT IT DOES SEEM THIS MAN, ALTHOUGH OF LIMITED INTELLIGENCE,
HAS GOOD QUALITIES AND IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO VARY THE SENTENCE’.

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