Teenager sexually assaults PC

A SHETLAND teenager who admitted sexually assaulting a police constable while she was on duty has been told that he could go to prison for up to a year.

Brydon Robertson, of 2 Nordavatn, Lerwick, also pled guilty to a charge of behaving in an abusive manner by shouting, swearing and making lewd comments, when he appeared before the town’s sheriff court, on Thursday morning.

The court heard that Robertson grabbed the police officer by her buttock when she and a male colleague attended at his house after receiving complaints about loud noise, in the early hours of 16 July.

Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said Robertson, who was 17 at the time of the offence, also made a number of lewd comments which had been “explicit in the extreme”.

He added that police officers were regularly subject to abusive behaviour in the course of their duties, but those from Robertson were “extortionate in how explicit and abusive they were.”

Sheriff Graeme Napier deferred sentence until 5 October for a social enquiry report, but warned Robertson that he could go to prison or be fined up to £10,000.

He also told him that he had an obligation to register as a sex offender at the Lerwick police station.