A pizza chain boss who took a knife into a Dundee nightclub was ordered to carry out unpaid work.
Chantel Nell — director of operations for Project Pie — was ordered by Dundee Sheriff Court to complete 120 hours of unpaid work in the community.
She was given nine months to carry out the work as well as being placed under one year’s supervision and fined £750.
The sentence was handed down after she admitted taking a lockknife into Out nightclub, on St Andrews Street, for her “own protection”.
The court heard Nell, 43, from London, was on a business trip to Dundee in February this year.
On the evening of Friday February 12 she attended the busy nightclub with a two-and-a-half-inch lockknife in her possession.
Fiscal depute Nicola Gillespie said: “There were approximately 80 people in the club at the time.
“Door stewards were told around 2.10am that the accused was in possession of a knife. Witnesses passed a description of the accused to stewards, who located her.”
Police were informed and when they attended Nell repeatedly said she had the knife for her own protection and refused to accept it was illegal.
Nell, of Elizabeth Square, Rotherhithe Street, London, admitted having a knife in a public place, at Out nightclub, St Andrews Street, Dundee, on February 13 this year.
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