News / In brief for 27 July 2011
Young woman jailed
A YOUNG Lerwick woman was sent to jail for eleven months following a string of offences she committed while on bail.
Jessica Wright, of 23 Leslie Road, pled guilty to assaulting a woman in Bixter in April this year, threatening police officers with a knife and a bottle at her home address, on 17 July.
Appearing from custody on Wednesday, the 21 year old also admitted failing to comply with bail conditions when she did not appear before the court on 15 June, and missed an appointment with her solicitor on 6 June.
Sentence was backdated to 18 July.
Raba fined
THE PART owner of the Raba Indian restaurant, on Lerwick’s Commercial Road, was fined £1,600 at the town’s sheriff court today for having served a partly cooked meal.
Twenty-two year old Abdul Wahid, of 11 North Lochside, Lerwick, admitted breaking food safety requirements when placing a partially cooked chicken Tandoori before a customer on 23 October last year.
Wahid accepted that the chicken Tandoori could have been contaminated with pathogenic bacteria.
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