News / Drink driver jailed after absconding
A YOUNG Latvian man was jailed at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Friday after he ran away to London to escape a community sentence for his drink driving.
Edgars Kukutis had been banned from driving for five years and ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service after he was caught almost four times the drink driving limit in the car park at Lerwick’s Tesco supermarket where he worked on 25 November last year.
Only eight days earlier the 22 year old had been banned for two years and fined £750 for driving around Lerwick while more than three times the legal limit on 21 October.
Following his second court appearance, Kukutis was remanded in custody until 10 January so that reports could be compiled on him.
However instead of carrying out the community service, he ran away to London. As a result a warrant was issued for his arrest and on Friday Sheriff Graeme Napier sent him to jail for five months.
Earlier the court had heard Kukutis was an only child who moved to Shetland last year and that this was his first time away from home. The court confiscated the £1,200 car he was driving in November.
Also on Friday 21 year old Virginia Creggy from Liverpool was remanded in custody after appearing from private on drugs charges. She made no plea or declaration and was fully committed for trial.
Creggy was arrested a week earlier following the discovery of suspected heroin with a street value of £21,000 when she was stopped and searched by police on her way north from Liverpool.
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