News / Anti-smoking flare up
AN OFFSHORE worker from Gulberwick has been fined for assaulting two women because they were smoking outside a Lerwick pub last year.
Robert Watt, of Brynigwick, Upper Hillside, admitted seizing one woman by the neck and body at the town’s Market Cross on 5 September before pulling and pushing her.
The 53 year old also pled guilty to assaulting another women by seizing her neck and pushing her on her body.
Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie told Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday that a drunken Watt had complained about the two women smoking near the entrance to a Lerwick pub before things escalated before another man intervened.
Defence agent Tommy Allan said his client took offence to having to walk through smoke to get outside.
However he said Watt had ended up being beaten up by the passer by and after being arrested had to be seen by a doctor in the police cells.
Sheriff Philip Mann concluded that Watt had acted in a “stupid and childish” manner and fined him £200.
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