News / Monday’s court
A PORTUGUESE man has been banned from driving for 12 months and fined £500 after he was stopped driving along Lerwick’s Esplanade in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Appearing from custody at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Monday, 47 year old (name and address removed), pled guilty to driving whilst two and a half times the legal limit for alcohol.
Police said they stopped him after officers on patrol saw him driving on the wrong side of the road.
Also appearing from custody was 29 year old Matthew Smith, of 7 Stanegarth, Lerwick, who charged with making being aggressive and making threats to a sleeping woman after entering a house in Lerwick’s Bruce Crescent without an invitation.
The case was continued without plea until 24 July and Smith was remanded in custody.
Meanwhile Shetland police have reported a 48 year old man to the procurator fiscal after charging him with refusing to pay his taxi fare and racially abusing the taxi driver in Lerwick’s Harrison Square on Friday evening.
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