News / Court round up
Wake up call
NINETEEN year old Shaun Llewellyn, of 125 North Road, Lerwick, was fined £250 for causing £1,000 worth of damage to the men’s toilets at the town’s British Legion after being refused service at the bar because he was so drunk.
Lerwick Sheriff Court heard on Thursday that the apprentice joiner had gone to the bar straight after work, drunk far too much and been found by staff in the toilets when they were clearing up at the end of the night on 20 April.
Defence agent Tommy Allan said it had been a scary experience for Llewellyn to wake up in a police cell with no recollection of what had happened and that he needed to “caa canny” with his drinking.
Broken ribs
A SEVENTY eight year old man was taken to hospital with broken ribs after the bus he was in had to brake sharply to avoid colliding with a car that pulled out of a junction near Lerwick’s Gilbert Bain Hospital on 1 March.
James Sandison, of 17 Russell Crescent, Lerwick, was rushing his girlfriend to hospital with a severely bleeding foot when he pulled out onto Clickimin Road without looking properly.
The incident was reported to the police and on Thursday Sandison pled guilty to careless driving. He was fined £250 and awarded five penalty points, taking his tally to 11.
Skipper banned
BURRA work boat skipper James Fullerton, of 7 Atlaness, Hamnavoe, was banned from driving for 40 months and fined £1,000 after he admitted driving between Scalloway and Lerwick while two and a half times the legal limit for alcohol.
The 57 year old was stopped at 11.30am on 18 June, suggesting to procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie that he had a drink problem.
Defence agent Tommy Allan said Fullerton had enjoyed a night out the previous day and had a drink in the morning before he set out on the road. This was his second conviction for drink driving.
Devastated
A FIFTY one year old construction worker on the Total gas plant has lost his job after being caught over the limit while driving to work.
Father of four James Latta, from Saltcoats, was one and a half times the limit for alcohol when he was stopped on the Tingwall straight at 6.15am on 23 June.
The court heard he had been out the night before and thought he was sober enough to drive rather than catch the bus to work.
As a result he was “completely devastated”, losing the job he had held for 18 months and having to return home to find work.
Sheriff Philip Mann banned him for 12 months and fined him £400.
Shouldn’t have moved it
A RETIRED Lerwick man shifted his car at the request of the police only to find himself arrested for drink driving.
Robert Boston, aged 60, of 6 Carlton Place, Lerwick, went out for a dinner time drink on 15 June and on his return he found a police notice on his car asking it to be moved from King Harald Street to make way for the Lerwick carnival.
Unfortunately for him a police officer turned up and stopped him because the road should have been closed, and ended up breathalysing him, with a reading of two and a half times the alcohol limit.
Boston told the court: “I shouldn’t have moved it.”
Because he did, he received a 12 month ban and a £400 fine.
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