Shetland man sent back to jail

A young Shetland man is back behind bars after confessing that he intended to steal after being found at a house on the island of Yell.

Jason Pottinger, with an address at the same village, atMeadowbankRoad, Burravoe, admitted committing the offence in the early hours of Sunday, April 6, while on early release from a previous custodial sentence.

At Lerwick Sheriff Court yesterday, Sheriff Philip Mann jailed Pottinger for 10 weeks for intending to commit theft, and ordered him to serve a further six months from his previous sentence.

The court heard that Potroad,

“She noticed a vehicle approach at 1.30am”

tinger, 26, was discovered because one of the householders was unable to sleep that night.

Fiscal Duncan Mackenzie said she noticed a vehicle approaching the house at around 1.30am.

It stopped, turned and drove back to the main but was back 45 minutes later when the woman heard the vehicle driving over the property’s cattle grid.

She saw Pottinger stopping on the driveway, turning off the lights and getting out of the car.

She observed him using a torch to inspect the vehicles parked outside her house, and then turning his attention to a nearby garage and shed. She woke her husband and then confronted the intruder by shouting at him.

Solicitor Tommy Allan said Pottinger was very anxious about his tenancy and also the job he had been able to hold down since he being released early from jail.

SheriffMann said he had no option but to send him back to prison.