Adur knife haul details

Thirty two sealed bins, placed at police stations across Sussex, have been opened and their contents checked and counted after the amnesty finished last month.

They have included a variety of weapons, such as ornamental knives, two tarantula weapons '“ spider shaped with blades as the legs '“ small axes and many more.

Rodney Ash, police firearms and explosives manager, said: "It's obviously good news that so many knives and potentially lethal weapons have been removed from the streets of Sussex.

"The number collected compares favourably with the last knives amnesty in Sussex 10 years ago when 1,412 weapons were collected.

"But now the amnesty is over, there is no excuse for anyone to be carrying a knife in public. Officers will deal robustly with anyone they find in possession of a knife or similar weapon."

At Shoreham police station, 219 weapons were handed in while Lancing police station had 59 surrended. Thirty-five weapons were handed into Steyning police station.