A man tasered three times for having a hunting knife outside Bunkers Hill in Hockley has gone to jail.

Police received a 999 call about a man outside the pub carrying a knife, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

Officers attempted to detain 28-year-old Perry Mason, of no fixed address, but he walked away and was tasered on June 16 last year.

Judge Stuart Rafferty QC - who sentenced him for having the hunting knife, and a second blade in a car months earlier - told him in the dock: "The first weapon - a hunting knife with a blade of more than nine inches in length - was being carried by you on the streets of Nottingham late at night.

"It cannot be said that you did not know you had it. The purpose that you had it is not explained. I infer from that it was not merely for self-protection but for some more nefarious purpose.

"The people who were with you, some of whom will never have known you were in possession of that weapon, did their best to obstruct police.

"It is a situation that could well have escalated out of control. Fortunately it did not.

"Even before then, in a car, one other weapon was found in that vehicle as was well."

And he told Mason: "You and trouble know one another too well".

"Your record demonstrates that for too long now, starting as a juvenile and on now into your twenties, you have persistently flirted with drugs and violence, and I now have to sentence you for carrying two lethally bladed weapons and supplying drugs.

"The law cannot countenance persistent carrying of weapons, putting people's lives at risk. Your days of strutting around and showing off are not tolerated."

Mason, of no fixed address, was supplying cannabis "as a gentle sideline", said the judge, who gave him 18 months in prison for possessing the hunting knife.

A six-month prison sentence was added consecutively for possessing the knife in the car, on August 22, 2017, and nine months consecutively for having cannabis with intent to supply on June 6 last year.

The judge asked David Watts, mitigating, "does he give any explanation as to why he was carrying both of the weapons?".

Mr Watts replied: "No good reason".

A hunting knife in a sheath was recovered from Perry Mason during the incident in the Sneinton Market area

Of the hunting knife offence, he said the knife was in a sheaf and not taken out, and dropped when he was tasered three times.

"I said, 'it must have hurt?'. He [Mason] said, 'not half'".

"He now knows what can happen and what being tasered feels like".