A martial arts expert has been sentenced to 60 hours' community service for carrying a weapon in a Bristol street.

Alex Seymour, aged 23, of Four Acres Close, Withywoood, was caught carrying a nunchaku – a Japanese weapon made out of two sticks connected by a chain or rope – tucked into his jeans pockets.

Bristol Magistrates' Court heard he had been practising with the weapon at his mother's home in Brislington and was walking home after stopping at a friend's house when he was arrested in Queens Road in Withywood.

As the nunchaku was not hidden away in a bag, Seymour was charged with carrying an offensive weapon.

Sentencing, magistrates ordered him to carry out a 60-hour community order, and not to openly carry the weapons again.