Knife seized at Tmba airport

A TEENAGER had a credit card knife seized by security staff at Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport, the Toowoomba Magistrates Court has been told.

Miles resident Kyle Sallas Hussey-Smith was the subject of a routine search at the airport when security officers saw a credit card with a 5cm foldaway knife attached in his wallet, police prosecutor Alistair Windsor told the court.

The 19-year-old was co-operative with the security staff and readily surrendered the item after which police were called, Senior Constable Windsor said.

The teeanger pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of a category M weapon.

Duty solicitor Claire Graham told the court her client didn’t know it was illegal to carry such an item.

Her client, who had no criminal history whatsoever, was doing a traineeship with the council in his home town of Miles, she said.

He had travelled to Toowoomba specifically to attend court and plead guilty to the charge, she said.

Magistrate Catherine Pirie took into account Hussey-Smith had no criminal history at all and that he hadn’t known the item was a Category M weapon.

Ordering the conviction not be recorded, Ms Pirie fined the teenager $300 and ordered that the credit card knife be forfeited to the Crown for destruction.