News / Drink driver fined and banned for a year
A MAN who admitted getting into his work vehicle in Lerwick while more than double the legal alcohol limit has been fined and disqualified from driving for a year.
26 year old Jan de Graaf, of Zierikzee in the Netherlands, was caught by police attempting to move the parked vehicle from Albert Wharf at 2.30am on Sunday.
Defence agent Tommy Allan told Lerwick Sheriff Court that de Graaf had left the car there and enjoyed a night out drinking. He had intended to shift the car to Victoria Pier before getting a taxi home.
De Graaf admitted the charge and apologised for his actions.
Sheriff Philip Mann said de Graaf had made a “very stupid decision”. He disqualified him from obtaining or holding a UK driving licence for 12 months (reduced from 18 months due to his early guilty plea) and imposed a fine of £500, reduced from £750.
Meanwhile two other custody cases were continued without plea on Monday morning:
- Craig Moverly, 44, of Burnside, Lerwick, faces multiple charges including stealing vans from Grantfield Garage and the Bigton Community Shop on Friday and driving them while uninsured.
He is also charged with threatening or abusive behaviour by standing in the middle of the road between Scousburgh and Bigton, causing a car to stop and then getting in and repeatedly asking the female driver for a kiss.
Moverly is further accused of shouting, swearing, threatening to kill police officers and violently struggling with them.
The case was continued until Tuesday for a mental health assessment to be carried out, and Moverly has been kept in custody. - 17 year old Mark Rushby, of Haldane Burgess Crescent, Lerwick, appeared in relation to charges that he was found at two homes in the north of Lerwick where it is suspected he intended to commit theft.
Rushby’s case was continued until Thursday and he was granted bail.
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