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News / Lock knife man locked up again

A SHETLAND man found wandering around Lerwick in a drug-fuelled daze with a lock knife in his pocket was returned to jail at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday.

Earlier this month 25 year old Kieran Roberts, of 24 Sandside, Firth, had admitted possessing the weapon on South Lochside on 15 June.

Police arrested Roberts after receiving a call that he had been sleeping in a bus shelter, but by the time they found him he was wandering around with his eyes closed. They searched him and found the knife.

Defence agent Michael Burnett told the court on Thursday that Roberts had found the knife and intended to hand it in to the police, but had been sidetracked after taking drugs.

“He accepts that having taken illicit substances and suffering from the effects of intoxication…he didn’t hand it in immediately,” Mr Burnett said.

At the time Roberts had been on a supervised release order from a prison sentence due to end in November. He has now been returned to prison in Aberdeen to serve the rest of that sentence.

Sheriff Philip Mann jailed Roberts for a further nine weeks, saying he did not consider drug taking to be an excuse for not handing in the knife.

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