A 29-YEAR-OLD homeless man has admitted having a three-inch bladed knife in Stroud police station car park on December 3.

Rory Palmer pleaded guilty when he appeared in Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, December 5.

Palmer also admitted possessing six grams of cannabis on the same occasion and destroying a computer table bracket at Quedgeley police station the following day.

He was put on a community order for 12 months and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £45.