Five await sentencing

TWO men who admitted injuring another man by assaulting him before dragging him out of a house will learn their fate in May.

Twenty year old Nathan Robertson, Culswick, and Richard Bradley, 58, of Lerwick’s Staney Hill, pleaded guilty at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Tuesday repeatedly punching and kicking the man on the body while acting together at an address in the town’s Ladies Drive on 20 July.

They also repeatedly struck him on the head with a metal knife-sharpening tool, causing him to fall to the ground, and seized him by the body and dragged him from the property to the pavement outside, all to his injury.

Sheriff Philip Mann deferred sentence until 24 May for social work reports to be prepared and warned the pair that custody is “very much in prospect”.

A TWENTY eight year old man from Lerwick will also be sentenced on 24 May after he admitted repeatedly striking a man on the head to his injury last year.

Ross Sutherland, of Hoofields, pleaded guilty at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Tuesday to assaulting the man, who is now deceased, at an address on the town’s St Magnus Street on 23 June.

Defence agent Gregor Kelly encouraged criminal justice social work reports to be prepared to reveal more about the case’s background, with Sheriff Philip Mann agreeing to defer sentence.

Donnie Hutchison and Stephanie Adamson will be sentenced on the same date after admitting being concerned in the supply of cannabis and cannabis resin.

Twenty five year old Hutchison, of Turnibrae, Dunrossness, and 22 year old Adamson, of Lerwick’s Grostane, admitted committing the offence at an address in Dunrossness on 3 December when they appeared in court on Tuesday.

Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said the value of the drugs was not yet known.

Sheriff Philip Mann said the charge was “serious” and would merit all options being considered.