Three remanded in custody

A SHETLAND man charged with attempted murder has been fully committed for trial after appearing for a second time from custody in private before Lerwick Sheriff Court.

Forty-two year old Francis O’Neill Whyte, from Scalloway, made no plea or declaration when he appeared before honorary sheriff Eric Peterson, on Monday. He was remanded in custody.

Meanwhile, the cases against Mossbank men Adam Chapman, aged 24, and Adam Nelson, aged 23, were both continued without plea until the 11 July.

Chapman, of Leaside, is accused of attempting to steal a cashbox from the Dragon House takeaway, on Kantersted Road, on 10 June, and causing a breach of the peace by banging doors and windows and throwing plant pots around a garden in Clickimin Road on 21 June.

Nelson, of the same address, faces charges of stealing a cashbox and its contents from COPE Pet Supplies on Commercial Street, stealing a watch from Toll Clock Cards, in the Toll Clock Shopping Centre, as well as banging on a door and challenging people to fight in Pitt Lane, all on 15 June.

He has also been charged with refusing to leave the Thule Bar when requested by police on 11 June.

There were no applications for bail and both men were remanded in custody.

Nelson and Chapman had initially been due to appear before the sheriff on Friday but because of travel disruptions due to thick fog were unable to be taken from custody on the Scottish mainland to court in Lerwick.