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Court / Deferred sentence for good behaviour after bail breach

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A FORTY one year old man who breached bail just six days after being released has had his sentence deferred to be of good behaviour. 

Calum Thomas Jamieson, of Ladies Drive, Lerwick, admitted breaching bail conditions on 2 October by not remaining at his bail address.

He had been bailed at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on 26 September, having made no plea.

However, a routine police check found that Jamieson was not at his bail address between the hours of 7pm and 7am.

Both Jamieson and solicitor Katie Donald said he had been unable to stay at the “uninhabitable” address, with Jamieson calling it “disgusting”.

Donald said it had been “damp”, filled with “drug paraphernalia” and alcohol, and that she had since lodged an application for Jamieson’s bail address to be changed.

That case is to be heard at Edinburgh Sheriff Court tomorrow.

The defence agent said she could not see any reason why that was likely to be opposed.

She told Lerwick Sheriff Court on Monday that the conditions at Jamieson’s bail address were “so poor” that he had decided to leave.

Jamieson had made no attempt to evade the police, she said, and had actually handed himself in when he discovered that they were looking for him.

Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said Jamieson had contacted the police of his own accord to tell them where he was.

Sheriff Ian Cruickshank said that while this was “still a breach of bail”, he did not think that any penalty required to be imposed.

He deferred sentencing for six months for Jamieson to be of good behaviour.

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