News / Court round up for 3 October 2011
A YOUNG Lerwick man charged with punching four people in the head, including two 15 year olds, before jumping into the sea at the town’s Victoria Pier on Saturday has been told to stay sober in public for the next two weeks.
Sean Barker, aged 22, of 101 St Olaf Street, appeared from custody at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Monday facing five charges of assault and causing a breach of the peace.
The case was continued until 19 October and Barker was released on bail with the condition that he is not drunk in a public place and submits to any attempt to breathalyse him.
Meanwhile two Scottish men employed laying the fibre optic cable from Lerwick to Scalloway appeared from custody charged with assaulting a local man on Lerwick’s Commercial Street on Saturday.
Craig Templeton, aged 35, of 20 Eskvale Crescent, Penicuik, and 36 year old David Grant, of Elm Bank, Croyard Road, Beauly, Inverness, also had their case continued without plea until 19 October.
Finally 42 year old Scott Paterson, of 6 Prospect House, Law Lane, Lerwick, pled not guilty to assaulting a woman at a house in the town’s Hillhead and smashing a pane of glass there.
He was told to keep away from that address as a special condition of his bail until he goes to trial on 15 December.
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