News / Lerwick man on sex offenders’ list
A LERWICK man has been placed on the sex offenders register after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in the town.
At Lerwick Sheriff Court on Tuesday Darren Odie, aged 22, of 19 St Sunniva Street, admitted intentionally and recklessly touching the woman in a sexual manner at an address in the town’s Harbour Street on 29 March.
Sentence was deferred until 21 September for a social work report to be carried out and Odie was release on bail.
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