A man has pleaded guilty to carrying a lock knife in a busy Kilmarnock street.

James Haggarty, 32, of Mackenzie Drive in New Farm Loch, appeared at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court following the incident last year. 

Haggarty was said to have carried a lock knife in Kilmarnock's Titchfield Street on September 14, 2023. 

Court papers state he did "without reasonable excuse or lawful authority have with you an article which had a blade or was sharply pointed, namely a lock knife".

The case was adjourned until February 26.