News / Court round up
A YOUNG Lerwick man who admitted chasing an uninvited visitor from his home but then pursued him into the street and assaulted him by repeatedly striking him on his head and body was fined £125 at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday.
Mark Rushby, of 16 Haldane Burgess Crescent, was told that he had no right to take the law into his own hands.
The court heard how the victim had entered the home of the 18-year old in the early hours of 10 August attempting to join a party there.
Defence solicitor Liam MacAllister said his client accepts that his actions exceeded what would have been acceptable.
Fining Rushby, Sheriff Philipp Mann told him that he was not entitled to take the law into his own hands whatever the circumstances.
“What you should have done is call the police,” he said.
Meanwhile, sentence on a woman from Walls was deferred until early January after she admitted embezzling £2,000 from the Queen’s Hotel, where she was employed as a receptionist.
Lerwick Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday that 32-year old Claire McGilvray, of Waterloo, took the money on 31 July and 1 August this year.
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