Court / Court round-up 9 August 2023
A SCAFFOLDER from Newcastle has been fined £600 after shouting, swearing and gesticulating aggressively towards police officers in Lerwick.
Frankie Ions, 26, of Lemington, admitted at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner on the town’s Commercial Street and police station on 29 July this year.
Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said passing police officers were approached by security staff at the Trench Bar shortly after 2am, who said Ions had been refusing to leave.
Ions became “belligerent and aggressive”, the court heard, with officers requesting assistance.
After failing to stop him he was arrested and taken to Lerwick Police Station, where he then behaved aggressively again – including uttering homophobic comments – after learning he was the subject of enquiries about a separate incident at the Trench Bar.
Defence agent Tommy Allan noted that the offence occurred during the busy Tall Ships event in Lerwick, and said his client had too much to drink.
He said Ions wished to apologise to the police officers.
Sheriff Ian Cruickshank suggested acting aggressively towards police officers when drunk was becoming too common and called it “totally unacceptable”.
A WOMAN who admitted obtaining more than £6,000 from her father’s bank account through fraud has been placed under a community payback order.
Michelle Cumming, 31, of Walls, previously pleaded guilty at Lerwick Sheriff Court to obtaining the funds between May and August last year at the TSB bank in town.
The charge stated that she completed and signed cheques in the name of her father without his knowledge or consent, to the value of £6,230.
Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie previously said the fraud took place over 14 separate transactions, involving cheques with fake signatures.
The case had been adjourned for the preparation of a criminal justice social work report.
At court on Wednesday Sheriff Ian Cruickshank imposed a community payback order featuring 18 months of supervision and 180 hours of unpaid work.
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