Teenager sentenced to 16 months in custody 14/8/14
An island troublemaker has been sentenced to 16 months custody for a long string of offences.
Jean Ann Maclachan was told there was no alternative but to send her to a young offenders institution for the protection of the public.
At Stornoway Sheriff Court on Thursday, Sheriff David Sutherland said the 19-
He stressed it was “extremely disturbing that somebody of your age gets into this amount of trouble.”
The sheriff indicated the youth had previously retained her freedom by being sentenced to payback orders but recently she had “flatly refused to comply or take up an offer of help.”
Maclachan 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 and punching and kicking him.
Procurator fiscal David Teale said the male became unconscious as a result of the assault which occurred at an address in Westview Terrace, Stornoway, on 19 June.
Other offences included Maclachan previously admitting assaulting a female by grabbing and squeezing her face on the same day she was released on bail in January; injuring another woman by kicking her the head last December in Westview Terrace; pouring the contents of a drinks can over a third female at Stornoway bus station as well as threatening behaviour; kicking a police constable on the leg in Newton Street in June and struggling violently while resisting arrest at Westview Terrace.
In February, she was convicted after trial on a charge of making racist remarks to a woman in Garden Road, Stornoway.
In addition, Maclachan was caught drunk at 2am on February 7, despite being banned from drinking alcohol under a strict condition of getting bail 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 later date.
Sentence was backdated from June 30.