A 26 year old man from Buckfastleigh has been jailed after being convicted of various offences including possessing a knife in a public place and criminal damage to property.

Danny Morgan, of Market Close, Buckfastleigh was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court for three years for taking prohibited items into a prison together with more local offences last year.

Morgan received additional time for possessing an offensive weapon in a public place - he was sentenced to five months imprisonment, as well as one month for the damage to property where he smashed a neighbour’s window and one month concurrent for possession of cannabis.

Morgan was also given three months concurrent sentence for using threatening, abusive, insulting words behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress.