Man facing jail after third knife conviction in Leicester

Summarised from Leicestershire Live's report · Updated 4 Nov, 18:02 · Archive

A 26-year-old man has been convicted of carrying a combat knife in Leicester city centre for the third time.

Ma-Kyi Nugent-Clarke, 26, was arrested in the early hours of 27 April in the Burleys Road area of Leicester city centre. Police officers responding to a report of aggravated burglary found him carrying a combat knife. He resisted when officers tried to search him and had to be taken to the ground before being taken to Euston Street Police Station.

At Leicester Crown Court on 4 November, Recorder Jacob Hallam told Nugent-Clarke the weapon was 'a knife designed as an offensive weapon to intimidate people and to cause them serious injury'. Nugent-Clarke had no reasonable excuse for carrying it, his barrister told the court. This is the third time Nugent-Clarke has been convicted of carrying a knife. The judge told the court he had seen 'hundreds' of grieving mothers weeping for their sons after knife attacks, and described knife crime as 'a blight on our society'. Nugent-Clarke is facing a jail sentence.

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• 'Family man' facing jail after being caught with 'intimidating' weapon in Leicester streetHe had two previous convictions for carrying a knifeLeicestershire Live · 4 Nov, 12:34

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