News / Repeat offender given jail warning
A LERWICK teenager who has run up a string of offences over the past 18 months has been warned he will face jail if he does not sort himself out.
Eighteen year old Liam Cromwell, of 6 Stanegarth, is already on probation for two breaches of the peace and an assault in the town last year.
He has also pled guilty to possessing the Class A drug cocaine and Class C recreational drug BZP at 23 Grostane, Lerwick, on 7 March this year, as well as stealing a laptop computer and carry case, a PlayStation console and 11 games and two Blu Ray discs from a house in Hoofields, Lerwick on 7 April.
His latest offending took place on 19 August when he was caught in the passenger seat of a car that had been taken without the driver’s permission and then lied to the police about the driver’s identity when they were stopped on the A970 north of Scalloway.
On Wednesday Lerwick Sheriff Court heard that Cromwell’s father had found him a job in waste management in Norway and that he hoped to start later this month.
Sheriff Graeme Napier fined Cromwell £950 for the driving offences and deferred sentence on the drugs charges and breaching his probation for four months.
The sheriff warned: “If you mess up in Norway you face coming back to see me in four months time and going to custody.”
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