A man from Lerwick who committed a string of offences including breaking into a Lerwick chemist to steal medication has been sent to jail for over two years.
Martin MacDonald, of Robertson Lane, was also given a 52-month driving ban when he appeared from custody at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday for a number of traffic offences committed last year.
The 43 year old previously pled guilty to breaking into A.L. Laing’s chemist on the town’s Commercial Street on 15 October and stealing a quantity of tablets of the sedative lorazepam, while on bail.
MacDonald also admitted a charge of dangerous driving on Lerwick’s South Road on 13 April, which saw him drive at excessive speeds, repeatedly mount the pavement to overtake traffic, causing pedestrians to take evasive action, enter the opposing carriageway while there was oncoming traffic and drive around a roundabout in an anticlockwise direction.
He also appeared on a charge of being concerned in the supply of heroin at an address on Lerwick’s Ladies Drive between 8 and 18 November 2015, which he previously admitted.
Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said the supply charge related to MacDonald letting other people use his property in return for drugs.
Sentencing the 43 year old, sheriff Philip Mann said MacDonald got into the drugs supply circuit off his own back. “I accept that you may have been taken advantage of, but you involved yourself in what could be regarded as a significant supply of drugs,” he said.
Sheriff Mann jailed him for ten months and ordered the forfeiture of the money. He added on another nine months to MacDonald’s sentence for the break-in before giving him a further eight months and a lengthy ban for his “shocking piece of driving”.
The sentence of 27 months in total was backdated to when MacDonald was first remanded in custody on 17 October.
