News / Jailed for eight months
A MAN has been sent to jail for eight months after breaching a curfew and smashing a glass door at a friend’s house.
Thirty nine year old Jamie Neill, of Sandveien, Lerwick, admitted to breaching a restriction of liberty order imposed in April after being sentenced for a shoplifting spree undertaken last year.
He was given a three-month restriction of liberty order and was told to remain in his house between 7pm and 7am.
Lerwick Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday that Neill breached the curfew on a number of occasions, with defence agent Tommy Allan stating that some of the lapses were even just to smoke a cigarette in his garden.
Sheriff Philip Mann said that Neill only just dodged jail for his shoplifting and therefore decided to give him a six-month custodial term for the breaches.
The sentence was reduced from one year as a result of his time already spent in custody and to reflect his early guilty plea.
Mann also landed the Lerwick man with an extra two months in jail after he admitted smashing the double-glazed glass panel of a door at a friend’s house in the town on 17 December last year.
The court heard that Neill had been locked out of the building and tried to force entry by using a discarded TV to break the glass.
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