A CONTRACT coordinator has avoided jail after being caught with four cans of an incapacitant spray.

Slawomir Szurowski, 41, of Hampden Road, Slough was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Tuesday (April 4) for possession of a weapon.

The court heard that the contract coordinator, who works for John Crane UK, had bought the CS sprays for ‘self-protection’ and didn’t know that buying them was unlawful.

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When the defendant came to learn the sprays were illegal he decided to keep them for ‘reasons of safety’.

District Judge Peter Greenfield gave him a 12 month community order, 40 hours of unpaid work and 20 rehabilitation days.