Offensive weapon

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10 July 2014 13:03

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A FIFE builder working in Shetland with his brother has been ordered to be of good behaviour after wielding a pickshaft in central Lerwick on Wednesday.

Appearing from custody at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday, 18 year old Matthew McAllister, of 36 Rutherford Court, Kirkcaldy, admitted possessing an offensive weapon on Rognvald Street.

Honorary sheriff Arnold Duncan deferred sentence until 23 January for McAllister to be of good behaviour.

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