Youth broke promise made to Inverness court
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Ethan Jack told a sheriff he was “fed up of criminality” and would stay out of trouble, but has been sent to detention for eight months after breaking his word.
Jack (20) of Union Street, Inverness, was also placed on a two-year community payback order to provide him with social work assistance on his release.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard he had twice broken his promise to go straight after admitting behaving in a threatening manner by brandishing a golf club in Inverness’s Culduthel Park on November 2 last year.
Pleading guilty he was admitted to bail subject to a 7pm to 7am curfew as background reports were prepared ahead of sentencing.
But he was arrested a few days later and pleaded guilty to breaching that curfew by being in Bught Lane, Inverness, at 10.30pm on March 23.
He further admitted to charges of shouting and swearing and uttering threats of violence in the same street that evening as well as while en route to the city’s Burnett Road police station.
Sheriff Fleetwood said then: “So much for him staying out of trouble.”
Despite this Jack was given another chance and again admitted to bail.
He was back in court on Tuesday of this week to admit further offences involving incidents in Kingussie in the early hours of April 19.
He admitted behaving in an abusive or threatening manner towards police outside a house in the High Street there and then struggling with officers later in Burnett Road police station in Inverness.
Jack also pleaded guilty to a charge of maliciously damaging a car’s ignition system before police arrived to deal with him as well as to punching a police officer and breaching his curfew once more.
Defence solicitor Rory Gowans told the court: “He has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and was self-medicating with alcohol and drugs.
“Clearly he needs intervention as he is in danger of spiralling out of control.”
Backdating Jack’s sentence to April 20, Sheriff Fleetwood told him: “You didn’t take the chance to stay out of trouble, but the assistance will be there for you if you wish to take it when you get out.
“If you don’t, then you will be in breach of the order and you will go back to custody.”
