Court / Court round-up – 20 November 2025
A MAN has been disqualified for a year and fined a total of £1,000 after a police check on a vehicle uncovered drink driving and a lack of insurance.
Nathan Wilcock, of Urafirth, appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday to admit driving in the town with 101 milligrammes of alcohol in 100ml of urine on 1 February. The limit is 67.
Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said the 22-year-old was stopped by police at around 10.20pm following a check on the vehicle he was driving, which showed there was no insurance.
After officers smelled alcohol, Wilcock fully cooperative with a roadside screening test and samples taken in Lerwick Police Station.
Defence agent Tommy Allan explained that the offshore worker was moving the car – which he had fixed up – for a friend at the time.
Sheriff Ian Cruickshank fined Wilcock £800 for the drink driving offence and disqualified him from holding or obtaining a licence for 12 months.
This ban can be reduced by one quarter if he completes a drink driving rehabilitation course. He was also fined £200 for the insurance offence.
A WOMAN has been fined after admitting charges of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and assault.
Lerwick Sheriff Court heard on Thursday how Gemma-Louise Drever, of the town’s Hoofields, entered a house in Lerwick without invite after drinking on 27 November last year.
The occupants, who were known to Drever, asked her to leave but “she steadfastly refused to do so – and did so in an aggressive manner”, according to procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie.
He also said Drever lunged towards a woman in the house, grabbing hold of her hair and pulling her down to the ground, causing minor injuries such as bruising.
Defence agent Mr Chapman said Drever’s son had entered the building to retrieve something of personal value to the family, with the woman then following.
He added that his client regretted her behaviour.
Sheriff Ian Cruickshank fined Drever £450 and ordered her to pay £150 in compensation to the assault victim.
A WOMAN from Dunrossness has been told to be of good behaviour for six months after a “heat of the moment” incident in a Lerwick car park.
Kerry Wheeler, 48, admitted at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at the Harbour Street car park in the town on 18 August, including shouting, swearing and uttering threats.
She also pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting a man by pulling him, seizing hold of his body and punching him on this head to his injury.
However the court was told these injuries were “relatively minimal”.
The court heard how the incident stemmed from Wheeler’s apparent ill-feeling towards a person connected to her family.
Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said Wheeler had blocked the male’s vehicle in the car park before acting in the behaviour detailed in the charges.
Defence agent Tommy Allan said his client accepted she acted in the “heat of the moment in a way she shouldn’t have”.
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