A Western Isles teenager was sent to detention for 16 months at Stornoway Sheriff Court yesterday after admitting severely injuring a man in an attack.
Jean Ann MacLachlan was told there was no alternative but to send her away for the protection of the public.
Sheriff David Sutherland told the 19-year-old that she had committed “serious offences”.
He stressed it was “extremely disturbing that somebody of your age gets into this amount of trouble”.
The sheriff said that she had previously retained her freedom but recently had “flatly refused to comply or take up an offer of help”.
MacLachlan, whose address was given as The Old House, Lewis Street, Stornoway, pleaded guilty to her latest offence when she appeared from custody.
She admitted severely injuring a man by hitting him on the head with a bottle.
Fiscal David Teale said the man fell to the ground and she then punched and kicked him, rendering him unconscious, at an address in Westview Terrace, Stornoway, on June 19.
Her previous convictions included assault, threatening behaviour, assaulting a police office and resisting arrest.
In February, she was convicted after trial on a charge of making racist remarks to a woman in Garden Road, Stornoway.
In addition, MacLachlan was caught drunk at 2am on February 7, despite being banned from drinking alcohol under a strict bail condition and in defiance of a 7pm to 7am court curfew imposed just days earlier.
She also previously accepted she drank alcohol on another occasion as well as refusing to provide a breathalyser test on a different date.