Police find knife in shopping centre plant pot

The moment police found a large knife buried in a plant pot at a city centre shopping centre was caught on bodycam.

A man was spotted carrying a blade by CCTV operators at Queensgate in Peterborough on 18 August.

Officers searched him outside the magistrates' court in Bridge Street and found no knife but he told them where he had hidden it.

He later admitted possession of a knife in a public place and was jailed for a year and 18 weeks.

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