A Moray teenager caused almost £1,000 worth of damage to a restaurant and threatened to kill its staff following an argument over a kebab.
Dean Stewart, 17, admitted hurling a rock through the window of the Elgin premises when he appeared at the town’s sheriff court yesterday.
The attack happened just a week after he was caught drink driving.
Fiscal Ross Carvel said Stewart had also been drinking when he visited the Elgin Kebab Shop on Commercial Street shortly after 2am on Saturday, May 30.
He told the court: “The accused ordered food but when asked for payment there appeared to be an issue.
“He didn’t have sufficient funds and demanded a discount on the £7.20 price of the kebab.
“He was told he could not get food unless he could pay for it.
“Stewart started banging his hand on the counter, and when he was asked to leave the premises he shouted that he would return in two minutes to kill all of the staff.
“The accused then smashed the window, covering the witnesses in glass.”
Takeaway worker Kazim Turn was injured by shattered glass during the incident.
Stewart, of 7 Logan Court, Elgin, also admitted drink driving on Saturday, May 23.
The court heard he was more than four times the limit when he was stopped by police at 10.25am.
Solicitor Simon Booker-Millburn said: “My client is a young man who has a lot of maturing still to do, and he has certainly seen the error of his ways.
“In regard to the driving offence, my client had been drinking the night before but genuinely thought he was in a safe situation to drive that morning.”
Sheriff Peter Grant-Hutchison said Stewart was “substantially over the limit” and “a danger to himself and many other people”.
The sheriff banned Stewart from the road for 18 months and fined him £100 in response to the drink driving charge.
He was also fined £100 and ordered to pay £852.50 to compensate for the window he smashed – but admonished for the theft of the kebab.
