It Disturbs Us All, Judge Daly...

A man with previous for knife crime was arrested with a ‘Zombie’ knife in a sheath beneath his coat.

Josh Abbott, 26, was caught just four months after he was sentenced for a catalogue of offences including weapons possession.

Oxford Crown Court heard he was among a group of men in a car stopped by police in Great Western Drive, Didcot, in the early hours of July 4, 2020.

Someone's not learning, eh? 

Abbott, now of HMP Bullingdon, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to possession of a bladed article. Despite his youth, he had 23 convictions for 68 offences and was currently a serving prisoner.

Well, time to enact that maximum sentence for knife carrying. What is it, five ye... 

Sentencing him to eight months’ imprisonment...

*sighs* 

...Judge Nigel Daly said: “You are on recall. You are not going to get released until next August and realistically speaking the sentence I am going to pass in relation to this offence isn’t going to add to the period you are presently spending in custody.

“But what disturbs me about you is that you have got a huge number of convictions to your name already and you’re 26.

“This offence was committed whilst you were the subject of a criminal behaviour order and only a matter of a few months after you had been given a sentence of imprisonment for a number of offences which involve possession of a knife in a public place – and you went and did it again.”

Well, of course he did! Why wouldn't he, when the consequences are so slight?