knuckleduster in his pants believing he would be confronted by protesters with hammers.Omar Bhatia was also wearing shin guards as well as carrying a bag of leather arm coverings and a balaclava in Glasgow city centre last September.The 34-year-old carpenter told police that he had the items as protesters were carrying “hammers last Friday.”This was in relation to a mass disturbance in the city’s Govan area involving an Irish republican march and loyalist demonstrators the week before.The first offender pleaded guilty today at Glasgow Sheriff Court to the unlawful possession of a knuckleduster.The court heard there were a mass number of police in city centre due to a recent “significant disturbance” in Govan.Bhatia was stopped wearing dark.
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