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A MAN who stole his 77-year-old grandmother’s bank card and withdrew £1,250 from ATMs over the festive period last year has been fined £400 and handed a community payback order.

Brian Ferguson, 34, of Grostane, Lerwick, admitted stealing the card from an address in the town’s North Lochside and then withdrawing money on three occasions on or between 16 and 27 December 2015.

Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said Ferguson helped his granny with her shopping and was in a position of informal trust that he “abused in fairly dramatic fashion”.

Representing himself, Ferguson said he was in a “bad place at the time” and had not spoken to his grandparents in the last 10 months as he was “obviously embarrassed by what happened”.

The community payback order will see him placed under supervision for nine months.

HEADBUTTING a man outside a venue for the Brae Up-Helly-Aa after being taunted has landed a 23 year old man from Mossbank with a £200 fine.

Martin Neeson, of Smuggabank, admitted an assault that left the man with bruises outside the Delting Boating Club on 19 March this year.

Neeson said he had left the premises to go for a cigarette and was subjected to “a heap of abuse” from the man and his daughter, who were taunting him about his mental health.

“I reacted very immaturely by headbutting him,” Neeson told Lerwick Sheriff Court. “If I could go and do it again I’d walk away and call the police.”

CARELESS driving resulted in three penalty points and a £200 fine for a 22 year old who is studying at Glasgow College.

Thomas Sclater, of King Harald Street, Lerwick admitted driving without due care of attention, causing his vehicle to leave the road on the A970 at Levenwick on 31 march this year.

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Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said it was a “classic case of an inexperienced driver”, adding he was understandably “quite badly shaken up by the incident”.

A MAN with a “dreadful record” of shoplifting has had sentence deferred after stealing a kettle from the Cooperative Food shop in Lerwick.

Darren Lawson, 42, of the town’s Mill Lane, had been using valium at the time and has no recollection of the incident.

Defence agent Richard Donaldson said his client was making a “genuine effort” to turn his life around. He will be sentenced on 12 April.

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